chemical action vs swelling

swelling vs chemical action

chemical action and swelling both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
chemical action	Yes	No	No	No
swelling	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, swelling is a hyponym of chemical action; that is, swelling is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than chemical action:

chemical action: (chemistry) any process determined by the atomic and molecular composition and structure of the substances involved
swelling: the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)

Other hyponyms of chemical action include acylation, agglutinating activity, agglutination, amylolysis, association, blueing, bluing, calcification, catalysis, contact action, chelation, chemical reaction, reaction, chlorination, cleavage, corroding, corrosion, erosion, cracking, deamination, deaminization, decalcification, decarboxylation, de-iodination, demineralisation, demineralization, desalination, desalinisation, desalinization, digestion, dissociation, gasification, gassing, hydrogenation, intumescence, intumescency, inversion, iodination, chemical mechanism, mechanism, nitrification, peptisation, peptization, photosynthesis, polymerisation, polymerization, precipitation, proteolysis, pyrochemical process, pyrochemistry, sequestration, synaeresis, syneresis, synthesis, transamination, transamination, ferment, fermentation, fermenting, zymolysis, zymosis.

chemical action (noun)	swelling (noun)
(chemistry) any process determined by the atomic and molecular composition and structure of the substances involved	the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)
	something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
	an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement

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