metachemistry

It is none the less true that a metachemistry came into being with the Mendeleeff table and that the ordering and rationalizing tendency led to ever more numerous, ever more profound successes.

1968, Gaston Bachelard, The Philosophy of No: A Philosophy of the New Scientific Mind, page 49

Metachemistry includes orthodox chemistry. In orthodox chemistry, the chemist is concerned principally with the contents of acts of chemical understanding. In metachemistry, both the contents of the chemist's acts of chemical understanding, as well as the acts themselves, are of interest.

1988, William J. Danaher, Insight in chemistry, page 141

The two main problems of metachemistry as related to the field of propellants are the stabilization of metastable states in macroscopic bulk and the exploitation of the freely available excited particles in the upper atmosphere for the generation of HAL discharges especially blue starters, blue jets and red sprites is calculated.

1959, Otis E. Lancaster, High Speed Aerodynamics and Jet Propulsion

In addition to the importance of metachemistry for propulsion, there exist intimate relations between metachemistry and the problem of directly exploiting the radiation from the sun as well as the problem of storing energy for varying periods.

1962, Fritz Zwicky, Morphology of propulsive power, page 208