how chemistry related to other science
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HOW CHEMISTRY RELATED TO OTHER SCIENCE?
Chemistry is a very important branch in science. It can relate to biology because it composes of all
chemical reactions and thus explain all the reactions in the body, for example it explains how our stomach
acids dissolve food and how we convert it into energy. Chemistry composes of how all the elements
work, of acids and alkalis and their differences, chemical reactions such as combustion (fire) and muchmore.
You take math and start to apply it to our real world, you get physics. equations governing how things
move and interact.
Eventually you take those equations and try to apply them to the very small...it works, sortof, but really to
describe lots of little particles in a system you need other governing principles, etc-- The borderline is
called physical chemistry which deals with atomic structure and kinetics of reactions things like that
You move into chemistry, describing systems of molecules and atoms and how they work. These can get
more complex into things like polymers; eventually you start dealing with even more complex systems ofmolecules.
Here the borderline is biochemistry, discussing the replication of DNA and RNA, proteins, giant
macromolecules and moving up into the cell and cell systems...
All this is well and good, but again, not super practical if you want to talk about a _really_ complex
system of cells, so you need more rules, etc-- and then you move into biology the study of large
multicellular organisms, and how they interact.
In a nutshell I guess you could say this:
Biology is applied chemistry
Chemistry is applied physics
Physics is applied math
Math is just plain abstract dealing with numbers (note: normally it's an
if you want to make a joke about mathematicians there (= ).
If you wanted to extend it further you could say that psychology is applied biology, and social sciences
are like applied macro-psychology, etc, etc...
Chemistry is what makes sciences like geology and biology possible. Chemical reactions are at the base
of every living thing and present in every inch of the earth. Chemistry is also inextricably bound to
physics. Atoms and molecules often obey some rules of physics while blatantly defying others. These
chemical phenomenae have given rise to new branches of physics devoted to explaining increasingly
small portions of the atoms all around us.
To put it more succinctly, what is studied in chemistry makes all the other sciences possible.
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