History of Chemistry through the Ages

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The history of chemistry dates back to the time of ancient history to now. Ancient civilizations used technologies that would eventually form the basis of the various branches of chemistry by 1000 BC. For example, they were extracting chemicals from plants to make medicines. The history of chemistry is intertwined with the history of thermodynamics. Chemistry is very important to our world today. Without it, we wouldn’t be near as advanced as we are. Let’s take scientists for example. The scientists at St. Jude children’s research hospital; everyday they are working to find the cure to various types of cancer by mixing different chemicals and making various compounds to somehow help all the children with the big C word today. Chemistry plays a big role in things we would never think of. Before chemistry, I would say society was a mess. We did not know of the Periodic Table of the Elements. Which is quite frankly mind blowing considering the fact that elements make nearly everything there is around us up. People living today will live much longer lives than they would have back then because Chemistry is what helps us discover all of our medicines, vaccines, and etc. We did not know of DNA. This is the carrier of all of our genetic information. Without chemistry, we wouldn’t have had liquid oxygen, which is rocket fuel. Without that the space race would have never happened. This means, we would not have satellite TV or internet. Without internet I would not be typing this chemistry paper right now. Without chemistry we wouldn’t have cell phones. Without cell phones, teens today would simply not know what to do with themselves. It is one thing after another. The world needs chemistry! Natural Resources involved in chemistry wou... ... middle of paper ... ...orking on finding a cure to cancer keep trying and trying, whose there to say that we wont have one ten years down the road. That would be so so awesome! So pretty much in a nutshell, without chemistry we would be absolutely no where today. Our technology is so ridiculously advanced I don’t see how it could get any more advanced. But yet some how our scientists keep on and on trying to come up with some crazy new invention that is supposed to make our world some type of way better. The way I see it from my point of view, our world can not get any more advanced than it is now. But chemistry still keeps on amazing me and hasn’t failed yet. So I am pretty interested in seeing what in the world chemists are going to be working on for the next big thing. Finally, to sum up this paper, Chemistry makes our world go round. Without it, we would still be sitting in the dark.

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