Chemistry

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Summary #

Chemistry is a branch of natural science that deals principally with the properties of substances, the changes they undergo, and the natural laws that describe these changes.

Chemical #

relating to chemistry, or the interactions of substances as studied in chemistry.

It’s Qualitative and Quantitative #

The study of chemistry spans the range from qualitative in focus to quantitative.

• The more qualitative chemist might work on synthesizing a new compound used in medicine, for example, while the more quantitative work can seem much like Physics applied to the microscopic level of atoms and molecules.