Some saw them as magic chemicals, until we found out that they were destroying the ozone layer.
"Tony has a chemical magic that succeeds in getting them to mix the two".
But thanks to the simplest chemical magic, you can cook up a more muscular and versatile alkali from your cupboard.
The saltworks gave rise to an industry that manufactured gunpowder, antifreeze, Agent Orange, and other "chemical magic," as The Saturday Evening Post put it, in 1943.
A chemical magic preserved our memories, and kept the dead alive: hence all those fond Victorian photographs of ectoplasmic spectres or capering, invisible fairies.
They were usually marketed as "chemical magic", with dramatic explosions and colour changes designed to amaze and astound the guests at any sophisticated soiree.
In one combination or another, this holy trinity ends up in almost everything I prepare the MSG, with its savory chemical magic, is particularly useful as rocket fuel for dishes of raw fruits and vegetables.
This "new women's fragrance that contains genuine human pheromones" is "scientifically designed, tested and proven to attract men like magic!" Pheromones - chemical signals that waft in the air - seem to work in the insect world, but there's little evidence that they influence complex human behaviour.
Somewhere over Africa, we opened the valves in the translunar motor, the hypergolics worked their chemical magic, and — voosh — we were hauling the mail to Moonberry R.F.D., our escape velocity a crisp seven miles per second, Earth getting smaller and smaller in the window.
Somewhere over Africa, we opened the valves in the translunar motor, the hypergolics worked their chemical magic, and — _voosh — _we were hauling the mail to Moonberry R.F.D., our escape velocity a crisp seven miles per second, Earth getting smaller and smaller in the window.
