dvance in the way we do battle. Rifles slowly became more accurate and deadly. Bombs did the same. But it was not until after the war that the consumers got to truly enjoy the benefits of wartime research. New synthetic copies of original products hit the market taking over the previous by being more reliable and cost effective. All these new products and the ones that are currently being developed right now are a result of R&D or research and development. With out it companies would have nearly no new products to market making the success in today’s global economy seem very dismal. R&D is the driving force behind the chemical industry. It is the reason America exported sixteen billion dollars more then it imported. These are the companies that make the goods you use and are the reason for our success in living.Now that we know who is making these fascinating gadgets that can intrigue and perplex simultaneously, it is time to know what they are really made of. As previously mentioned in “Your chemical World,” the finding of what we now call the periodic table took quite some time. Starting with the one proposed theory of things being made up of indivisible small particles, we are led down a very rocky path. This path was severely distorted by medieval time’s alchemy. But eventually we found our way into what is now called Periodic Law, which states that, “The Physical and chemical properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic weights,” which in turn led to the Periodic Table. And although the periodic table was drawn up with only sixty of the eighty-three naturally occurring elements, it served as a way of predicting what those element properties would be like. The interesting thing about this is that because we have discovered nearly all elements and defiantly all the naturally occurring ones it gives us an insight to the universe because theoretically these elements that we have...
