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Saturday 14 April 2012

What is chemistry?


WHAT IS CHEMISTRY?

  • The word 'chemistry' is believed to have originated from the Arabic word 'al-kamiya' which means 'The art of transforming metals'.
  • Chemistry is branch of science which study the properties, composition and interaction of matter.
  • Chemistry plays an important part in all of the other natural sciences, basic and applied, such as plant growth and metabolism. All these phenomenon cannot be understand without the knowledge of chemistry.
  • Chemistry is a way of studying matter. Matter is anything which has mass and occupies space.