A 

chemical reaction is a process in which one or more substances, also called

reactants, are converted to one or more different substances, known as products.
... A chemical reaction rearranges the constituent atoms of the reactants to create
different substances as products.
Everything you can breathe, see, ingest or touch is made up of chemicals. All matter,
including us, is made of chemicals. Chemistry is the study of the composition, structure,
properties and reactions of matter.
Chemical means involving or resulting from a reaction between two or more substances, or
relating to the substances that something consists of. ... The medicine chemically affects your
physiology. 2. countable noun [usually plural] Chemicals are substances that are used in
a chemical process or made by a chemical process.

What are the 4 chemicals of life?

Roughly 96 percent of the mass of the human body is made up of just four
elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen, with a lot of that in the form of
water. The remaining 4 percent is a sparse sampling of the periodic table of elements.

carbon dioxide
When you combine the solid (baking soda) and the liquid (vinegar), the chemical reaction
creates a gas called carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is invisible, except as the bubbles of gas
you may have noticed when the vinegar and baking soda mixture began to fizz. This gas is what
made the balloon inflate.