Chemistry An Introduction

Bart Ekiund checking air quaiity at a hazardous waste site. 

A knowledge of chemistry is useful to almost everyone—chemistry occurs all around us all of the time, and an understanding of chemistry is useful to doctors, lawyers, mechanics, business people, firefighters, and poets among others. Chemistry is important—there is no doubt about that. It lies at the heart of our efforts to produce new materials that make our lives safer and easier, to produce new sources of energy that are abundant and nonpolluting, and to understand and control the many diseases that threaten us and our food supplies. Even if your future career does not require the daily use of chemical principles, your life will be greatly influenced by chemistry. 

The environmental consulting field appeals to Bart for a number of reasons the chance to define and solve a number of research problems the simultaneous work on a number of diverse projects the mix of desk, field, and laboratory work the travel and the opportunity to perform rewarding work that has a positive effect on people s lives. 

Bart Eklund s career demonstrates how chemists are helping to solve our environmental problems. It is how we use our chemical knowledge that makes all the difference. 

The good news is that the U.S. chemical industry is leading the way to find environmentally safe alternatives to CFCs, and the levels of CFCs in the atmosphere are already dropping. 

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