To treat with chemicals or to undergo chemical treatment; to process chemically.
From French or Spanish 'chemise' (shirt, covering) combined with the '-ize' or '-izo' suffix meaning 'to make' or 'to treat with.' The term reflects romance-language influence on scientific nomenclature.
Chemizo is a rare example of how scientific English borrowed verb-forming patterns from French and Spanish, showing how chemistry developed as an international discipline with vocabulary shared across languages.
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