chemical energy

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chemical energy - that part of the energy in a substance that can be released by a chemical reaction

energy, free energy - (physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs; "energy can take a wide variety of forms"

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