What is Chemistry?

Chemistry is the study of matter, its properties, how and why substances combine or
separate to form other substances, and how substances interact with energy. Many
people think of chemists as being white-coated scientists mixing strange liquids in a
laboratory, but the truth is we are all chemists. Understanding basic chemistry concepts
is important for almost every profession. Chemistry is part of everything in our lives.

Every material in existence is made up of matter — even our own bodies. Chemistry is
involved in everything we do, from growing and cooking food to cleaning our homes and
bodies to launching a space shuttle. Chemistry is one of the physical sciences that help
us to describe and explain our word

Branching chemistry
In polymer chemistry, branching occurs by the replacement of a substituent, e.g., a hydrogen atom,
on a monomersubunit, by another covalently bonded chain of that polymer; or, in the case of a graft
copolymer, by a chain of another type. Branched polymers have more compact and symmetrical
molecular conformations, and exhibit intra-heterogeneous dynamical behavior with respect to the
unbranched polymers.[3][4] In crosslinking rubber by vulcanization, short sulfurbranches
link polyisoprene chains (or a synthetic variant) into a multiply branched thermosetting elastomer.
Rubber can also be so completely vulcanized that it becomes a rigid solid, so hard it can be used as
the bit in a smoking pipe.Polycarbonate chains can be crosslinked to form the hardest, most impact-
resistant thermosetting plastic, used in safetyglasses.[5]

Branching may result from the formation of carbon-carbon or various other types of covalent bonds.
Branching by esterand amide bonds is typically by a condensation reaction, producing
one molecule of water (or HCl) for each bond formed.

Polymers which are branched but not crosslinked are generally thermoplastic. Branching sometimes
occurs spontaneously during synthesis of polymers; e.g., by free-radical
polymerization of ethylene to form polyethylene. In fact, preventing branching to
produce linear polyethylene requires special methods. Because of the way polyamides are
formed, nylon would seem to be limited to unbranched, straight chains. But "star" branched nylon
can be produced by the condensation of dicarboxylic acids with polyamineshaving three or
more amino groups. Branching also occurs naturally during enzymatically-
catalyzed polymerization of glucose to formpolysaccharides such as glycogen (animals),
and amylopectin, a form of starch (plants). The unbranched form of starch is called amylose.
The ultimate in branching is a completely crosslinked network such as found in Bakelite, a phenol-
formaldehyde thermoset resin.

 Science Field That Is Related To Chemistry

1. CEMENT – is a binder, a substance used for construction that sets, hardens, and
adreheres to other materials to bind them together. It is a resistant to attack by
chemicals after setting. Hydraulic cements set and become adhesive due to a
chemical reaction between the dry ingredients and water.
2. METAL – in chemistry, a metal is an element that readily forms a positive ions
(cations) and has metallic bonds. Metals are sometimes describe as a lattice of
positive ions surrounded by a cloud of delocalized electrons.
3. PAINT – contain: pigment(s) – prime pigments to impart, colour and opacity. Binder
(resin) – a polymer, often referred ro as resin, forminh a matrix to hold the pigment
in place. Solvent (sometimes called a thinner) – either an organic solvent or water
is used to reduce the viscosity of the paint for better application.