The Importance of Studying Chemistry
Imagine what happens on a typical day with you You use toothpaste, once you
get up from bed in the morning. Then you start reading your books. Your mother
serves you biscuits and tea. After finishing that, you take your bath.
When you enter the washroom, you find it a bit unclean. You use toilet cleaner
to clean it and then have a bath using scented soap and shampoo. You use
lotions after a bath. Then you take your breakfast and go to school.
The teacher there uses chalk on the board to simplify your lessons. Now, do
you see, all the things you are using, e.g. paste, tea, toilet cleaner, soap,
shampoo, chalk, etc. are contributions of chemistry.
Not only that, we use fertilizers to increase the fertility of fields, use
insecticides to keep away insects from our crops, preservatives to store the
food for a longer time. This way, the whole process of food and cultivation is
dependent on chemistry.
Today, cholera, typhoid, tuberculosis, etc. are curable diseases but they were
once killer diseases. Millions of people died of them in the ancient days.
Humans have invented cures for them by means of their knowledge of chemistry.
Nowadays, the field of medicine has developed so much that many people are
cured of different cancers too.
Chemical wastes from industries, vehicles, consumer products, etc. are doing
harm to our environment. These contain carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulfur
dioxide, various acids, heavy metals like mercury, lead, arsenic, cobalt,
etc.
When they come to contact with the air, the air is polluted, when they come in
touch with water, water gets polluted. They enter human bodies and harm them.
Again, the use of excess chemicals is harmful to us. Insecticides help us save
our crops but excess insecticide gets washed away to the water bodies,
polluting the water.
Some of it gets vaporized and pollutes the air. Chemistry tells you all these
natural and life-oriented facts.
By now you should have understood that chemistry plays a significant role in
our advancement but excess of it is harmful to us and nature as well. Many
diseases are still there which do not have cures. Our duty is to study
chemistry and try inventing those drugs.
Therefore, learning chemistry does not only benefit us by means of newer
inventions, it also helps us realize how we are harming our nature. Your
learning chemistry will take the world steps ahead. That is our expectation.
