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Chemistry in Everyday Life

This document discusses the wide applications of chemistry in everyday life and medicine. Chemistry plays a role in sanitation, water purification, personal hygiene, and the production of many everyday items like sugar, oils, fabrics, plastics, medicines, and more. In medicine, chemistry is used for chemotherapy to treat diseases without harming the host's cells. Drugs are chemical compounds used for diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases. The document then discusses how chemistry education can help students understand its theoretical and applied aspects, and provides opportunities to explore areas like medicines, dyes, cosmetics, food preservatives, and rocket propellants.

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Chemistry in Everyday Life

This document discusses the wide applications of chemistry in everyday life and medicine. Chemistry plays a role in sanitation, water purification, personal hygiene, and the production of many everyday items like sugar, oils, fabrics, plastics, medicines, and more. In medicine, chemistry is used for chemotherapy to treat diseases without harming the host's cells. Drugs are chemical compounds used for diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases. The document then discusses how chemistry education can help students understand its theoretical and applied aspects, and provides opportunities to explore areas like medicines, dyes, cosmetics, food preservatives, and rocket propellants.

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Chemistry in Everyday Life

Chemistry finds a wide variety of applications in day today’s life. Chemistry has also found
solutions for improvements in sanitation, water purification and personal hygiene, leading to
better basic health for the whole human race. In fact everything that we use in our daily life is a
chemical. Sugar, starch, vegetable oils, ghee, essential oils, tannery, paper, plastics, medicines,
soap, cosmetics, rubber, fabrics, dyes, plastics, paints, explosives, petroleum products are based
on chemical processes.

Chemicals in Medicines
Chemotherapy -- The branch of science, which deals with the treatment of disease using
suitable chemicals, by destroying the invading organism without damaging the cells of the host,
is known as chemotherapy.

Drug -->Drug is defined as substance (chemical compound) used for the purpose of diagnosis,
prevention, relief or cure of a disease.

Chemistry involves finding out what different substances are made of and what their properties
are and how their properties can be changed in a way to help mankind. In this unit the students
may be made to understand that Chemistry is not only a theoretical subject, but its application go
along with man from the time of his zygote formation till his death. The products of chemistry
and chemical industry help us to do all things more easily and safely. The process of taking
simple chemicals and joining them to make new and more complex ones is synthesis. The
synthetic production of chemicals and the use of natural resources in the field of medicine, dyes,
food, and fuels are discussed in this unit. Since the topic is in the application level of chemistry
there is vast opportunity for collection & discussion. There is opportunity for giving appreciation
of work of great scientist by reading the discoveries made by them. The unit gives ample
opportunity for the preparation of creams, perfumes lotions and talcum powder etc

Curriculum Objectives
1. To understand the application of chemistry in medicine such as analgesics, tranquilizers,
antiseptics, antacids, hypnotics, antibiotics through discussion, charting and assignments.

2. To understand the classification of dyes by giving special emphasis on azodyes, vat dyes and
mordant dyes through discussion and exhibits.

3. To develop a general idea about creams, perfumes, Talcum powder & Deodrants, Carbon
fibres & Ceramics and about the chemicals used in food preservatives, artificial sweetening

t agents, edible colours and antioxidants through discussion, charting and seminar.

4. To familiarize a few examples of insect repellants, pheromones and sex attractants through
discussion and reference.
5. To familiarize the different types of rocket propellants and the chemicals used in them and the

important space programmed through general discussion, seminar and assignments.

Prerequisites
❖ Life oriented previous knowledge, familiarity related with consumption of medicine, dyes of
fabrics, use of preservatives of food, etc.

CO.1 - To understand the application of chemistry in medicine such as

Analgesics, tranquilizers, antiseptics, antacids, hypnotics, antibiotics through discussion,


charting and assignments.

Concept - Difference in the meaning of drug & medicine

Most medicines are made of a mixture of ingredients. One or more of these ingredients may be a
drug. A drug is a chemical substance which in simple way changes the way in which our bodies
work. Most medicines contain drugs but not all drugs are medicines. We do notthink of ourselves
as taking medicines when we drink tea or coffee. Caffeine is a drug present in tea and coffee that
it stimulates the production of urine.

The following story of discovery of aspirin can be red in the class room by students

Aspirin is almost certainly the drug which is most widely used as a medicine.

Its history began with a paper called "An account of the success of the bark of willow in the
cures of agues" (meaning fevers). This was read to the Royal Society of London in 1763 by
Edward Stone, a clergyman of Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire. Stone first thought of using
willow bark in the treatment of malaria and other fevers because it tasted bitter like the bark of
the cinchona tree. Cinchona bark was imported from Peru to provide the only effective treatment
for malaria.

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