What would life would be like if nobody had ever studied
chemistry? It’s easy to grumble about the homework,
but it’s impossible to overestimate chemistry’s
importance in our daily lives.
What Would Your Home Be Like?
The International Space Station with ATV-2 and
Endeavour (Image ESA and NASA)
Look around your home and count the number of things
around you that have come out of chemistry
breakthroughs and inventions. Without chemistry we
wouldn’t have light bulbs, mobile phones, Facebook or
Twitter. Much of the food we eat and clothes we wear
involve chemists and chemistry too.
If we had never...