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Asked by anon-199627 to Sylvia, Sumit, Martin, Kate, Bryony, Aryanne on 4 Mar 2019.
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Martin McCoustra answered on 4 Mar 2019:
Yes… the origins of chemistry can be traced back to ideas like turning lead into gold and other alchemical nonsense. Today, it is a complex discipline linking physics and biology with strong mathematical foundations. We have the early chemists of the 18th and 19th centuries for placing chemistry on a sound scientific footing.
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Kate McGonagle answered on 4 Mar 2019:
Hey Anastasia, this is a good question! It definitely has. There are a lot a fail safe things and techniques we still use from some time ago. But, there are constant break throughs in the way we do things. New and more efficient ways to do reactions. New bits of kit coming out to help us do chemistry more easily and allow us to do reactions that have maybe been very problematic to do in the past. Most recently here, we have purchased some photochemistry kit, this allows us to perform reactions under a blue light – these reactions wouldn’t work without it! When we use this kit we have to wear snazzy orange lab specs to protect our eyes.
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Sylvia Soldatou answered on 4 Mar 2019:
Absolutely! The main principles remain the same however, chemistry has integrated other sciences such as physics, biology and maths. Chemistry is following the trend of our times which means that you need interdisciplinary fields to move your research forward!
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Sumit Konar answered on 5 Mar 2019:
Chemistry did not change over the years. Our understandings changed, instruments changed. For example we knew rocks of different colours and shapes; but we couldn’t explain why is the shape and colour. It is only after X-ray crystallography we started knowing the crystal structure. It was still very hard to solve the structure of proteins until recently.
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anon-199627 commented on :
Ahhh ok thank you so much