17 April

The subdivisions of modern chemistry

The science that scrutinizes matter is named chemistry. The origins of today's chemistry have come from the ancient times. It used to be named alchemy - there were the attempts to turn iron into gold. Modern chemistry mainly works with atoms, compounds, reactions that occur between matters, and changes of energy which happen during these processes. What is more, chemistry as a science is associated with providing a description for the forenamed processes in the form of a law. Chemistry, biology and physics are the sciences that have a lot of joint objectives.

This science is divided into inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, biochemistry, physical chemistry and some other more specific fields.

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