stoichiometry

English

Alternative forms

• stœchiometry (archaic)
• stoicheiometry (British)

Etymology

Coined as German Stöchiometrie by Jeremias Benjamin Richter in 1792. From Ancient Greek στοιχεῖον (stoikheîon, “element”) +‎ -metry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌstɔɪ.kiˈɒm.ə.tɹi/

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Noun

stoichiometry (countable and uncountable, plural stoichiometries)

2. (uncountable, chemistry) The study and calculation of quantitative (measurable) relationships of the reactants and products in chemical reactions (chemical equations).
3. (countable, chemistry) The quantitative relationship between the reactants and products of a specific reaction or equation.

Derived terms

• nonstoichiometry
• stoichiometric
• substoichiometry

 

Translations

the study of the relationships of reactants and products in chemical reactions

• Afrikaans: stoigiometrie
• Armenian: ստեխիոմետրիա (stexiometria)
• Asturian: estequiometría f
• Basque: estekiometria
• Belarusian: стэхіяме́трыя f (stexijamjétryja)
• Bulgarian: стехиометрия f (stehiometrija)
• Catalan: estequiometria f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 化學計量學／化学计量学 (zh) (huàxué jìliàngxué)

• Czech: stechiometrie f
• Danish: støkiometri c
• Dutch: stoichiometrie (nl) f
• Esperanto: stekiometrio
• Finnish: stökiometria, stoikiometria
• French: stœchiométrie (fr) f
• German: Stöchiometrie f
• Greek: στοιχειομετρία (el) f (stoicheiometría)
• Haitian Creole: estekyometri
• Hebrew: סטויכיומטריה (he) f (stoykhiometriya)
• Hungarian: sztöchiometria (hu)
• Ido: stokiometrio (io)
• Indonesian: stoikiometri (id)
• Irish: stócaiméadracht f
• Italian: stechiometria (it) f
• Japanese: 化学量論 (かがくりょうろん, kagakuryōron)
• Kazakh: стехиометрия (stexiometriä)
• Kyrgyz: стехиометрия (stehiometriya)
• Latvian: stehiometrija f
• Limburgish: stöchjemaetkónde f
• Malayalam: സ്റ്റോയ്ക്യോമെട്രി (sṟṟōykyōmeṭri)
• Mongolian: стехиометр (stexiometr)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: støkiometri (no) m

  Nynorsk: støkiometri m

• Persian: عنصرسنجی, قیاس‌سنجی
• Polish: stechiometria (pl) f
• Portuguese: estequiometria (pt) f
• Romanian: stoechiometrie (ro) f
• Russian: стехиометри́я (ru) f (stexiometríja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: стехиомѐтрија f

  Roman: stehiomètrija (sh) f

• Slovene: stehiometrija f
• Spanish: estequiometría (es) f
• Swedish: stökiometri c
• Tamil: விகிதவியல் (vikitaviyal)
• Thai: ปริมาณสารสัมพันธ์ (bpà-rí-maan-sǎan-sǎm-pan)
• Turkish: stokiyometri
• Ukrainian: стехіоме́трія f (stexiométrija)