Life without chemical technology

I like chemistry, although as a matter of fact i prefer art to chemistry. So, for my first post, i would to share about chemistry...

Hmm what do you think about chemistry?? is it a difficult for you to learn? Do you think that it is a boring lesson? or even you think that chemistry is not important??

Let’s we contemplate how important it is.

After you read the article of Chemistry a World of Choices Book below, you will understand how important of chemistry science, especially the chemical technology in our life...^^

It is seven o’clock and your roommate wakes you up. Time to crawl out of bed and face the day: a sociology lecture, an accounting test, and three hours of chemistry lab... things could be worse. Imagine what our relatively pampered lifestyles would be like if we couldn’t take advantage of chemical technology.

You want to have a cup of “decaf”? Sorry, the decaffeinating process involves interactions between methylene chloride or carbon dioxide and the coffee beans. You go to turn on the light. Sorry!! Incandescent light bulbs involve heating a tungsten filament in an evacuated glass bulb. Making the glass and extracting the tungsten from its ore both depend on chemical processes.

Time to take a shower and get ready. You will have to get clean without modern soap, shampoo, or toothpaste because all are products of industrial chemistry. You want to put on your pantyhose or cotton/polyester socks? You can’t do that either because in a world without chemical technology, polymers such as nylon and polyester do not exist. Neither do the synthetic dyes that color your clothing.

Time to go to your first class. Hop in your car-wait! There is no car! No modern plastics, metals, or glass are available without chemical production. And gasoline is one product of the chemical processing of crude oil.

You run to class and arrive almost on time. The teacher is teaching, but you can’t take notes because the ink for your pen is a combination of synthetic chemical dyes, which in a world lacking chemical technology would not exist. Nor can you have books, which depend on chemically treated paper, ink, and glue.

This whole experience is giving you a headache. Time for an aspirin. But... you guessed it, aspirin is a chemically manufactured product . Well, if you can’t have anything else, how about drink of water? Well, yes, water is available, but almost all water is now made safe to drink by treatment with chemical disinfectants.

Perhaps the only bright spot in a rapidly deteriorating day is that you can take a relaxing walk around the neighborhood when you get home. Then again, concrete and asphalt are just two more products of the technological application of chemistry-to say nothing of your sneakers.