chemical affinity meaning

noun
  The tendency to combine with one another exhibited by many substances, or the force by which the substances constituting a compound are held together

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1. the forces of gravitation, of electricity, or of chemical affinity, are only distinguished from one another by being differently defined by reason
2. The term they used for this force was chemical affinity.
3. He also introduced the modern concept of chemical affinity.
4. Each amino acid has a particular chemical affinity.
5. In particular, he wondered how chemical affinity relates to heat in chemical reactions.