Chemistry
The science that helps us understand how everything around us is made and why things work the way they do.
What is chemistry?
Iron reacts with oxygen and water to form iron oxide.
What is rusting?
H2O
What is water?
A female chemist who discovered radioactivity
Who was Marie Curie?
Something that helps us make new medicines that can make us healthier.
What are chemicals?
Burning fuel in cars or fireplaces
What is combustion?
N2
What is Nitrogen?
A scientist who created the Periodic Table of Elements, organizing them by properties.
Who was Dmitri Mendeleev?
People who combine substances based on their properties, which determine how they will interact to form new chemicals.
What is a chemist?
Plants convert CO₂, water, and sunlight into glucose and oxygen
What is photosynthesis?
Cl2
What is chlorine?
Inventor of dynamite, founder of the Nobel Peace Prize
Who was Alfred Nobel?
tiny, tiny building blocks of life
What is an atom?
Baking soda and vinegar create CO₂ gas, making cakes rise.
What is baking?
CO2
What is carbon dioxide?
Created vaccines for diseases and pasteurization of milk
Who was Louis Pasteur?
The science that studies all the "stuff" in the universe (called matter) and how that stuff changes
What is chemistry?
A compound breaks down (e.g., Hydrogen Peroxide → Water + Oxygen).
What is decomposition?
NaCl
What is Salt?
Known as the "father of modern chemistry" for discovering oxygen's role in combustion.
Who was Antoine Lavoisier?