"metachemical" meaning in English

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          "text": "The greater part of this is in comparative thermal equilibrium, and so we should not expect metachemical change to occur.",
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          "ref": "2011, Davis Baird, Eric Scerri, Lee McIntyre, Philosophy of Chemistry: Synthesis of a New Discipline, page 15",
          "text": "Alfred Nordmann, in Chapter 19, draws on the work of Emile Meyerson and Gaston Bachelard — two philosophers with some genuine chemical knowledge — to articulate a more general, a richer, and a metachemical notion of substance.",
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          "text": "This is by no means reducing chemistry to a sub-division of physics, and even less making it a defenceless victim of Don Quixote-like pseudomathematical and metachemical theorists; a fundamental knowledge of natural history is still an essential condition for any further progress in an understanding of chemical bonding.",
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        "Pertaining to metachemistry."
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