Everyday Life
Without this gas in soda, your favourite fizzy drinks would be flat and boring.
What is carbon dioxide?
Love true crime shows? This chemist helps solve real cases with evidence.
What is a forensic chemist?
This noble gas lights up signs outside your favorite burger joint.
What is neon?
The sugar that fuels your brain for exams and late-night studying.
What is glucose?
Chemistry helped invent this life-saving drug that fights infections.
What are antibiotics (like penicillin)?
Chemistry keeps your smile healthy, and this ingredient in toothpaste prevents cavities.
What is fluoride?
Dream of inventing the next life-saving medicine? This is the career for you.
What is a pharmaceutical chemist?
Fireflies glow because of this chemical reaction, nature’s built-in light show.
What is bioluminescence?
This strong acid in your stomach is so powerful it can dissolve a razor blade.
What is hydrochloric acid?
Thanks to chemistry, clean water is safe to drink almost anywhere. This process makes it possible.
What is water purification (chlorination/filtration)?
This acid makes vinegar tangy and gives salad dressing its kick.
What is acetic acid?
If you want to protect the planet and fight pollution, you might become this type of chemist.
What is an environmental chemist?
Drop this metal in water and it explodes! Very cool, but very dangerous.
What is sodium (or potassium)?
The molecule that makes you you and chemistry helps us decode it.
What is DNA?
Chemists invented this alternative to plastic so turtles don’t star in sad ocean memes.
What are biodegradable plastics/biopolymers?
The reason your phone, sneakers, and water bottle are possible: this common polymer.
What is plastic (polyethylene)?
Love skincare TikTok? The people who make serums and acne creams are…
What are cosmetic chemists?
Diamonds and pencil lead are made of the same element (proving chemistry explains wild differences).
What is carbon?
These molecules, made of amino acids, are the reason you build muscle after workouts.
What are proteins?
Vaccines, made possible with chemistry, helped end or control these deadly diseases.
What are smallpox, polio, and COVID-19 (among others)?
Chemistry explains why avocados turn brown faster than you can say “#mealprep.”
What is oxidation?
Love space? This type of chemist helps NASA design rockets and study planets.
What is an astrochemist (or rocket propulsion chemist)?
This gas is used in whipped cream cans and also called “laughing gas.”
What is nitrous oxide (N₂O)?
This molecule is like a tiny delivery truck carrying oxygen through your blood.
What is hemoglobin?
This “wonder material” discovered by chemists is stronger than steel but thinner than a human hair. It could make phones charge in seconds or filter dirty water into safe drinking water.
What is graphene?