History of the Science of Chemistry

The history of chemistry makes a span of time reaching from ancient history to the present. By 1000 BC, ancient civilizations used technologies that would eventually form the basis of the various branches of the subject. Examples include extracting metals from ores, making pottery and glazes, fermenting beer and wine, extracting chemicals from plants for medicine and perfume, rendering fat into soap, making glass, and making alloys like bronze.

The science of chemistry, alchemy, was unsuccessful in explaining the nature of matter and its transformations. However, by performing experiments and recording the results, alchemists set the stage for modern chemistry. The distinction began to emerge when a clear differentiation was made between chemistry and alchemy by Robert Boyle in his work The Skeptical Chemist (1661). While both alchemy and chemistry are concerned with matter and its transformations, chemists are seen as applying scientific method to their work.

Chemistry is considered to have become a full-fledged science with the work of Antoine Lavoisier, who developed a law of conservation of mass that demanded careful measurements and quantitative observations of chemical phenomena. The history of chemistry is intertwined with the history of thermodynamics, especially through the work of Willard Gibbs.

Society had a lot of questions for chemistry never really knew what it was till they built schools and started to experiment and find answers for remarkable things like where we came from , the periodic table , cycles of life. The question is how was a life without answer, a life full of questions? I believe life/society, has got better and increased our knowledge about the things we didn’t know at first. Society has really ta...

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...nd we even use it in when dying our hair. There are many elements that we use every day fluorine. Though it is one of the most highly reactive and aggressive elements, it keeps our teeth healthy (used in toothpaste and in tap water). NITROGEN: almost 80% of the air is made up of nitrogen. We use it to breath. Without it we would have no DNA, no proteins, or even no muscles. SILICON: silicon is in sand on the beaches, and in the window panes. Its electrical conductivity allows PCs, mobile phones, cars, TVs and cameras to work. HYDROGEN: almost absolutely everywhere. In water, us humans, plants and animals. ALUMINIUM: used in alloy rims, train carriage they are even recycled. So my theory is that without the founding of chemistry or discovery we wouldn’t be nearly as far as we are right now in society and I thank anyone who have contributed to this movement of society