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Fromchemical +‎-ly.

chemically (comparativemorechemically,superlativemostchemically)

Using achemical reaction,process, oroperation.
According to theprinciples ofchemistry.
- 1852, Herman Melville,Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
  This letter, inscribed in a feminine, but irregular hand, and in some places almost illegible, plainly attesting the state of the mind which had dictated it;—stained, too, here and there, with spots of tears, whichchemically acted upon by the ink, assumed a strange and reddish hue[…]

using a chemical reaction, process or operation

according to the principles of chemistry

chemically (comparativemorechemically,superlativemostchemically)

(colloquial) Reminiscent ofchemicals.
- 2013, E. E. "Doc" Murdock,My Vietnam War (page 250)
  It starts out as kind of achemically taste, sharp and irritating, but then there's another taste underneath, like some kind of plant, maybe . . . flowers?

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