1. What is Chemistry?
The study of “matter”, its composition, properties, and the changes it undergoes.
Applied Chemistry - uses chemistry to attain certain goals, in fields like medicine, agriculture, and manufacturing
Pure chemistry - gathers knowledge for the sake of knowledge

2. 5 Major Areas of Chemistry
Analytical Chemistry - concerned with the composition of substances.
Inorganic Chemistry - deals with substances without carbon
Organic Chemistry - deals with substances containing carbon
Biochemistry - chemistry of living things
Physical Chemistry - deals with the physical properties of substances

3. Chemistry
important to all sciences - biology, geology, physics, engineering, etc.
a language with its own vocabulary.

4. Why Study Chemistry?
everyone and everything around us involves chemistry
possible career for your future

5. Chemistry Far and Wide
Materials - perfume, steel, ceramics, plastics, rubber, paints, nonstick cooking utensils, polyester fibers
Energy - fossil fuels, solar, batteries, nuclear (don’t forget pollution!)

6. Chemistry Far and Wide Medicine and Biotechnology-
vitamin C, penicillin, aspirin
materials for artery transplants and hipbones
Human Genome Project
bacteria producing insulin
cloning

7. Chemistry Far and Wide Agriculture - world’s food supply
plant growth hormones
ways to protect crops
disease resistant plants
The Environment- both risks and benefits involved in discoveries
carbon dioxide, ozone, warming

8. Chemistry Far and Wide Astronomy and Space Exploration-
composition of the planets
analyze moon rocks
planet atmospheres
life on other planets?