7/27/2019 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.