chemical substance

matter of constant composition best characterized by the entities (molecules, formula units, atoms) it is composed of and characterized by physical properties like density
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chemical substance

Summary

chemical substance ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (897 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • chemical substance is a type of chemical entity[2].
  • chemical substance is a type of substance[3].
  • chemical substance's Commons category is recorded as Chemical substances[4].
  • chemical substance's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Chemical substances[5].
  • chemical substance's has characteristic is recorded as cohesion[6].
  • chemical substance's has characteristic is recorded as group or class of chemical substances[7].
  • chemical substance's equivalent class is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_59999[8].
  • chemical substance's equivalent class is recorded as http://bioschemas.org/ChemicalSubstance[9].
  • chemical substance's equivalent class is recorded as https://schema.org/ChemicalSubstance[10].
  • chemical substance's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C48807[11].
  • chemical substance's different from is recorded as Stof[12].
  • chemical substance's different from is recorded as Stoff[13].
  • chemical substance's different from is recorded as chemical substance[14].
  • chemical substance's studied by is recorded as physics[15].
  • chemical substance's studied by is recorded as chemistry[16].
  • chemical substance's has part is recorded as molecular entity[17].
  • chemical substance's union of is recorded as list of values as qualifiers[18].
  • chemical substance's narrower external class is recorded as http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/vocab#SCR_Chemical[19].
  • chemical substance's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[20].
  • chemical substance's model item is recorded as pure substance[21].
  • chemical substance's model item is recorded as chemical product[22].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include chemical entity[2] and substance[3].

Why It Matters

chemical substance ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (897 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . ChEBI. wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . Compendium of Chemical Terminology. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 13d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) of the class molecular entity
    Studied by physics, chemistry
    On focus list of wikimedia project Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Has characteristic cohesion, group or class of chemical substances
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 7757, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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