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 discovered are the ones that compose all of the universe. Nearly seven million different compounds have been made and more being synthesized every day. That number might be increased nearly six fold by the twenty first century that would be around forty million different compounds. It is crazy to imagine what will be invented in years to come if all that we have has been done with only seven million compounds. Chemistry is an integral part of our lives; it is an intellectually challenging climb up the mountain of imagination. It the processes of making something do the same job better, for that fact making the whole world better. Chemistry is the root science from which nearly all other sciences have sprouted. Just like the chemical industry spawns out into almost every business out there forming a giant web codependent existence striving a slice of the same pie.To accurately descr...
