The Importance of

Chemistry in Our Daily

Life

Chemistry 1411
Fall 2012-2013
Ms. Nida Jamil
Zakia AlAsaad 201100622
Zainab AlHashim 201001479
Ohood AlGuryafi 200901235
Aminah AlRastem 200800733
 Chemistry has been around for thousands of years,
which can be seen from the way people extracted
metal for example from different ores, wool from
animals, and created paints & dyes and made glasses.
Chemistry evolves and changes in order to keep up
with the needs and desires of the people who use it. It
will never become worthless or useless practice.
 Importance of Chemistry in
Society
 Chemistry is playing an important rule in educate
people and make a better society. People have
different believes, thoughts and emotions. So, for a
good relationship between them, people tend to attract
to others who feel that they have shared common
interests and believes, and this what we called
chemistry.
Chemistry answers the needs of
our society through a deep
understanding of the factors that
government and hand over control
of chemical reactions. It plays a
critical role in man’s attempt to feed
the world population, to tap new
sources of energy, to clothe and
house humankind, to provide
renewable substitutes for dwindling
or scarce materials, to improve
health and conquer disease, and to
monitor and protect our
environment.
 Importance of Chemistry in
Medicine
 First of all, you need to understand the basic of
chemistry so you can understand how vitamins,
supplements and drugs can help or harm you.
However, most diseases, injuries and treatments
involve chemicals and chemical processes. So, we
should develop a good nutrition and a good lifestyle in
order to be healthy.
Bromine Applications in
Chemistry
 Water Purification
 One of the major uses of bromine is as a water
purifier/disinfectant. Bromine compounds are used for
water treatment in swimming pools and hot tubs. They
are also used to control algae and bacterial growth in
industrial processes.
 Cars - past and future
 In the past, bromine compounds were used in leaded
fuel, as a constituent of "anti-knock fluid". However, this
use has declined as lead has gradually been removed
from fuel. Bromine compounds are now being tested in
batteries for electric cars, designed to produce zero
emissions. Such batteries can also be used as
electricity storage devices.
 Photography
Bromine compounds have a number of applications in
photography. Several compounds are used to make the
light-sensitive component of

a photographic mixture; without bromine compounds

photographs would not capture sufficient light. Other
bromine compounds are used as an ingredient in photo
development.
 Iodine

 Iodine is a very important element and has a lot of uses.

The compounds are basically used in medicine,
photography and dyes. Another very important use of iodine
is as it is quite radio opaque, it can be used as a contrast to
X-rays.
 Iodine is an essential mineral required by the human body.
Medline Plus reports that one of the most important tasks of
iodine is stimulating the production of thyroid hormones,
which regulates thyroid function. Iodine also promotes
protein and bone synthesis and regulates metabolism,
growth and development.
 Hair Colors
 Hair coloring is very popular
today, with over 75% of women
coloring their hair.

 The first safe commercial

hair color was created in

1909 by French chemist using the

chemical Paraphenylenediamine.
How does Hair Color work?
 Hair is mainly consists of keratin which is the same
protein found in skin and nails.
 The natural color of hair depends on the ratio and
quantities of two other proteins, eumelanin and
phaeomelanin.
 Eumelanin is responsible for brown to black hair while
phaeomelanin is responsible for golden blond, and red
colors.
 The absence of either type of melanin produces
white/gray hair.
 How Lightening Works?
 It's the result of chemical series reactions between the
molecules in hair and pigments.

 The bleach which is chemical material used to lighten

hair, reacts with the melanin in hair. The melanin is still
present, but the molecule becomes colorless.

 Bleach reacts more easily with the dark hair which

contains high percentage of eumelanin than with the
phaeomelanin.
Thank You for Listening!