How does Chemistry affect our daily lives?

Question

Please list all the ways you believe chemistry affects your daily life. I am doing a survey to see how people use chemistry every day . I really appreciate it, Katie.

How do you think it will change our lives in twenty years?

Answer 1

Your body is chemistry in action.

The iron in your blood oxidizes, rusts, to carry oxygen through your blood stream to your body's cells. The rest of the body runs through chemical and electrical actions.

Plastics, Teflon, our understanding of metals and so much more is a reflection on chemistry.

Steel is one of the hardest and most useful metals we have ever created. Its original creation was an accident, now days we know that steel is iron with 6% carbon.

A battery is chemistry in action, as it creates a ionic charge on the negative pole that creates a flow of electrons to the positive pole.

When you burn something and look at the light through a prism you see the spectrum of it and all chemicals and elements have their unique spectrum. We use this knowledge to determine what elements exist in stars and hot gases in space. This fundamental understanding of astronomy is all due to chemistry.

From the ink on the paper we read to the very air we breathe I can't think of a way that chemistry doesn't effect us every day. It is in all our products, one of the fundamental pillars of our technology and an extremely important field.

Electricity, and the invention of the light bulb is one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century, but chemistry is more important and has more influence on our daily lives. From how the circuit boards are made to the paint on the finished products all electrical devices and applications have to thank chemistry for their use. But, the exchange and sharing of electrons is the basis of all chemistry and how all chemical processes happen. Chemistry is truly a fundamental force.

Answer 2

Chemistry In Our Lives

Answer 3

Chemistry affects EVERY single facet of your existence.
You cannot list any physical thing that you do that isn't governed by chemistry.
Food growth
Food preparation
Utensils
tools
fuel
EVERYTHING

Answer 4

Here is just a short list: cooking pool ph and chlorine washing clothing cleaning using cleaners eating (inner body chemistry) salting an icy sidewalk driving a gas powered vehicle, both exhaust produced and energy released using garden fertilizer and chemicals

Answer 5

I don't think a minute goes by that it's not affecting my (or anyone's life). The shampoo and toothpaste I used this morning. The engine in the car I drove to work. The gum I'm chewing. The semiconductors in this computer. It's a long list, but rest assured each of them had a team of chemists developing it.

Answer 6

Chemistry doesnt affect our daily lives it creates it