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"I've been known be attracted to a wide range of appearances. I'm more concerned with chemistry and personality. "wot is meaning of chemistry above? does that mean blood?

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[nq:1]"I've been known be attracted to a wide range of appearances. I'm more concerned with chemistry and personality. " wot is meaning of chemistry above? does that mean blood?[/nq]
When we talk of the chemistry between people we mean the way they react to each other, often on a subconscious level.
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Approx. 26 Aug 2005 21:31:29 -0700, someone calling themselves "Lin" (Email Removed) let their cat run across the keyboard resulting in:

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Dictionary calls it dynamic interrelation.
Charma, vibes, that ethereal (intangible) feeling that passes between two people. The chemistry of love is an oft used expression. But the feeling or chemistry can be bad as well as good. Electricity is sometimes used synonymously but chemistry is the most commonly used term. ** AHD on CDROM states:

3. The elements of a complex entity and their dynamic interrelation: Now that they had a leader,a restless chemistry possessed the group (John Updike).
4. Mutual attraction or sympathy; rapport: The chemistry was good between the partners.** Also used in the sense of bad chemistry leading to a dissolution of the partnership, i.e., business, marriage, living together, or going steady as examples.

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It may (or may not) go back to Goethe using the term "Die Wahlverwandtschaft" as a title for his 1809 romantic novel. (The term derives from late-eighteenth-century chemical theory, and is usually translated as 'elective affinity'.)

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