Generations of science

Chemistry is the foundation for life, every thing around us is chemistry based, from the chair your sitting on to the drink that you may or may not have at this very moment. The point is that there is so much more to life than meets the eye. Take water for example, our earth is made up of 70% water, our land mass does not even make up half of this earth. The percentage of water in a average 70kg male is around 60%, so as you can see we have already got an idea of how so important water is for us as a species and of course for our survival. Now lets go further in depth as to get a full understanding of water and the chemistry around it, I do know that if we want to gain a better understanding of chemistry we best start with the most abundant compound on this earth. Water is made up of the two elements oxygen and hydrogen, one molecule of water will consist of two hydrogens attached to one oxygen atom, with in say a cup of water there are millions of these molecules all attached to one another by bonds known as hydrogen bonds, these hydrogen bonds are the result of electrostatic attraction between molecules of H20, but I am not going to go too much in depth just yet.

In 2005 there was a news paper report on how student were bored to depth with science and 51% of students found science to be boring (HTTP://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4100936.stm ) as well as this science subjects at A-level were also being neglected and was not a subject that was being chosen above others such as art or physical education.

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Chemistry and of course science in general is needed and really should be a large priority subject over others as science is the foundation for life, although of course there are arguments as to what really is the main foundation of life but that's going into the topic of philosophy which I do not want to go to much into, but I do agree on one point, that science should be the search for truth.

So before we go to much off topic can you answer this question, what is science? or to be more precise what is chemistry? I suppose they are questions that cannot be answered with just one simple answer. But with a understanding of the basis of chemistry and science as a whole we can all begin to fully understand the meaning of science and of course how important it is for us to help us develope as a society, as humans.

Chemistry can be taken and applied to all aspects of life, in industries we are always relying on chemical process that supply us with our everyday products. The uses and distribution of elements and using their physical and chemical properties, although some are used to cause destruction and havoc as war erupts because of the greed of our nations. But still elements and chemistry in general  are used for our own benefits    and because of these facts its important that we are educated in understanding chemistry and of course science in general.