Within a few years, chemists had synthesized a substitute for madder in the production of Alizarin Crimson.

The chemists could now synthesize any conceivable food, whether it had a counterpart in nature or not.

A skilled chemist can readily synthesize most chemical agents if the precursors are available.

"What's keeping us from flying with it right now is that we need a clever chemist - which I am not - to synthesize the polymer."

Replies: Most chemists do not actually synthesize elements, which are defined to be atoms.

Hence, chemical studies are confidently carried out on one or at most a very few instances of the materials that chemists are analysing and synthesizing.

When chemists synthesize amino acids in the laboratory, the result is a mixture of roughly equal amounts of the left-handed and right-handed forms.

Previously, chemists synthesized proteins in liquid solutions.

Years later in 1881, German chemists synthesized the first PCB in a laboratory.

Since then chemists have synthesized some 5,000 variants of the buckyball, including elongated spheroids, sheets of carbon and microscopic tubes.