If you’ve also been wondering what the answer to this question might be, you’ll just have to come to Cafe Scientifique in Morris next week.
I’m going to guess that the answer is that it’s a prerequisite to getting into biology classes? Maybe?
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
The word has a Greek root, so it has that going for it. Via Latin and Arabic of course, as so much scientific terminology is. Though there are Egyptologists who would try to stick their noses in and say it comes originally from the Egyptian “khemet” – black earth (and what ancient Egyptians called Egypt themselves), rather than the Greek “khymatos” meaning a poured-out liquid. Don’t let them fool you!
You use it to blow stuff up.
I think I am made of chemicals, so chemistry is probably a good thing. Others, of course, may disagree.
Apropos @2
perhaps this will be of interest
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/09/27/what-this-here-compound-needs-is-some-hydrogen-peroxide
Beat that PZ, seriously though folks everyone knows Chemistry is the Queen of sciences, the rest are just there to give us tools(Physics) or interesting problems(Biology)
Yes I am a chemist why did you ask?
Chemistry is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. And what oynaz said.
Ed Seedhouse said:
And what’s doing that thinking? Why, chemicals, of course!
What’s so great about chemistry? Looking at a small LED flashlight with corrosion on spring side of one of the three batteries, and realizing I can clean up that up with vinegar, followed by aqueous bicarbonate, also known as baking soda/powder, household chemicals. Green to clean, and very bright light after installing new batteries. Practical.
I knew I’d stir up the chemists with those remarks.
So…will I be seeing you all on Tuesday?
Well, chemicals are made of molecules, which in turn are made from atoms, which are made from subatomic particles that are also waves (and are 99% empty space – according to some physicists I read, if I understand them rightly), which in turn (according to some physicists I read, if I understand them rightly) are made up of the resonances in fields, which seem to be fields of probability. So am I all the field’s fault? Or is probability my real daddy?
Mathematicians yawn at these trivially obvious corollaries…
Probability IS the babby daddy.
math without application is a lot like masturbation though. Fun in theory, but doesn’t produce anything useful.
What’s so great about chemistry?
LSD?
blf @10, sorry for the delay but us Brits do sleep at night, but Mathematics is applied philosophy not a science
Ichthyic @12: Well, thank Jebus for wankers like Gauss, Riemann and Sylvester.