What is another word for substances?

Pronunciation: [sˈʌbstənsɪz] (IPA)

The word "substances" is widely used to describe any variety of materials, chemicals, and ingredients. There are several synonyms for the word "substances" including "materials", "compounds", "elements", "substances", and "ingredients". "Materials" and "compounds" refer to any physical matter, whether it's organic or inorganic. "Elements" and "substances" describe chemical compounds that are essential to our lives, such as oxygen and water. And "ingredients" is often used when describing substances that are used in recipes or formulas. These words can be used interchangeably in different contexts, especially when referring to the physical and chemical properties of matter.

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Usage examples for Substances

It also brings to these boreal regions quantities of floating material, such as the trunks of palm-trees and other substances suitable for fuel, to which useful purpose they are put at the Lofoden fishing hamlets and also on the shores of the main-land.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
The fire, as he describes it, is made of ship-wood: for it burns in all the beautiful colours which denote the presence of metallic substances and salts; and as his fancy reconstructs the ship, it also raises the vision of a distant coast well known to his companion and to himself.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
Another cause that has largely contributed to render experiments on animals so barren of results must be sought in the injudicious selection of substances intended to serve as antidotes.
"On Snake-Poison: its Action and its Antidote"
A. Mueller

Famous quotes with Substances

  • The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms.
    Walther Bothe
  • As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.
    Robert Crumb
  • My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am.
    Peter Fonda
  • The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances.
    Paul Harris

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