Chemical

Deprecated. Replaced by https://taxonomy.materialinstruments.com/id/material/polymer. The identifier still resolves and is not going anywhere.

A legacy top-level class for chemically synthesised, non-natural materials that did not distinguish specific polymer families.

Where Chemical sits among every term. Drag to turn; choose a dot to open it.

How it connects

Not linked to any other term yet.

Beside it in Material: Composite, Wood, Denim, Polymer, Coating material, Monomer, Plasticiser, Mineral, Metal and Natural organic.

In other taxonomies

Uniclassno equivalent

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Where it sits

One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term

Chemical

10 terms, Composite to Natural organic

Record

Deprecated in favour of polymer, which classifies synthesised materials by their specific polymer family.

Provenance: authoredcomposition dictionary in a materials-retrieval system (src-05); in-house definition

For machines

Permanent address

/id/material/chemical

This termGET /v1/concepts/material/chemical
The word, every meaningGET /v1/term/chemical

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Knowledge graph

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Crosswalks

External mappings and dated negative results for Chemical
Scheme	Identifier	Their label, or the search	How close
Uniclass	no equivalent	searched 21 Oct 2026Chemical \| chemical via https://uniclass.thenbs.com/download	none