Importance Of Chemistry In Everyday Life

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Chemistry is important and surrounds us in our everyday lives. People use chemistry quite often without even realizing it. An important term in chemistry is to know what term matter means. Matter is something that occupies space. People are involved with chemistry as soon as they are born and also experience it every morning when they wake up. As people, we experience chemistry when we walk, eat, sleep, breathe, drink, and many other things that we do in our everyday life. An interesting and important fact to know is that our body knows chemistry and is made up of it. Our body is made up of many different types of elements and compounds. As soon as a person wakes up in the morning, they experience chemistry by their alarm clock going off. However, this alarm …show more content…

The friction from the tires and the gravel created chemistry, along with the gas in my car that made it run. During the summer, people will have campfires or bonfires at their house or at the campground they are staying at. The wood and the fire are creating a chemical reaction. Another chemical reaction that happens over a campfire is when a person is cooking hot dogs and burgers. The heating process of it begins the chemical reaction and as soon as the hot dogs or burgers are burned, this is a chemical reaction. Some more examples of chemical reactions are the tree leaves that change color, cooking food, and a bicycle rusting. The changing color of leaves are a chemical reaction because of the chemicals in the leaves, such as chlorophyll, carotenoids, and anthocyanin. With these three pigments combined together, they change the leaves to pretty colors when fall is approaching. Cooking food changes into a chemical reaction because the hormones release an ethylene gas causing the food to turn brown. Lastly, bicycles begin to rust when they are out in the rain or getting wet, the iron and oxygen react to each

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