Chemistry in Everyday Life

Introduction 

Chemistry has long been a part of human society; From a morning cup of tea to a medicine’s chemical reaction, we can find chemistry in everything. Drugs having a molar mass of 100–500u helps in the maintenance of life.

To induce a biological reaction, this chemical composition interacts with the macromolecular goal. This has medicinal and therapeutic characteristics that can be used to diagnose and prevent ailments. When we use higher dosages of the drugs as a medicines, it work as a toxic.

In our day to day life, chemistry is used everywhere from medical uses to burning fuel, chemistry is everywhere, in this article we will deep dive and will know about the uses of chemistry in everyday life.

Medicine or Drugs

Medicine or drugs are chemical compounds that aid living creatures in the cure of symptoms or the reduction of suffering. Chemotherapy is the technique of treating sickness with pharmaceuticals or chemical compounds that eradicate the micro – organisms without harming human bodies. Chemotherapeutic agents are the substances utilised in this procedure.

The following is a list of a variety of medical compounds:

1. Antiseptics: These are substances that inhibit or kill hazardous bacteria from growing in our bodies. Dettol, Savlon, Cetavelon, acriflavine, iodine, methylene blue, mercurochrome, and other popular antiseptics are only a few examples. A combination of chloroxylenol and terpineol is known as dettol. The diluted solution of Dettol is commonly used to treatment of wounds. Bithional is a substance that is given to soap to give it antibacterial characteristics.
2. Disinfectants: Antimicrobials are chemical substances that have the potential to fully eliminate microorganisms. They are poisonous to living things, which is one of its drawbacks. Disinfectants are used for a variety of purposes, but the most common ones are floor, sanitary, and fabric sterilisation. It’s worth noting that a 0.2% phenol solution is disinfectant.
3. Analgesics: These are drugs that are employed as painkillers, that is, they are utilised to relieve pain. There are two sorts of these:

(a) Narcotics drugs: Narcotics drugs are a type of alkaloid that has opium as one of its constituents and are recognised as habit-forming medications so they produce drowsiness and loss of consciousness when taken in large doses. Morphine is a good example of this type of medicine.

(a) Non-narcotics: Analgesics, which have effective manner antipyretics, fall under the non-narcotics group. Non-narcotic medications include aspirin, ibuprofen, and naproxen, among others.

4. Antipyretics: These medications are used to reduce or eliminate a person’s fever. The following are some of the more prominent. 

And there are many more variety of medical compound, that we used in our day to day life.

Introduction to Rocket Propellants: 

Rocket fuel sources are chemical fuels which are used to deliver the precise amount of pressure to rocket satellites as they approach orbit. This may be created by combining two chemicals.

(a) A flammable or explosive substance called as fuel.

(B) Oxidizer 

There are various requirements for becoming a fuel, which may be summarised as follows:

1. This should be ashless, i.e. no ash should be produced when fuel is burned.
2. When fuel is burned, a significant volume of gases should be produced per gram of fuel.
3. The combustion process should be quick.

Categorization: 

It can be categorized on basis of it’s physical state of fuel oxidizer i. e., where it is gas, solid or liquid in nature 

1. Solid Propellants: There are two sorts of them.

(a) Composite propellant: 

Polyurethane or polybutadiene is the primary polymeric binder for fuel, while ammonium perchlorate is the primary oxidizer (II).

(b) Nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine double-base propellant Solid propellants have one huge drawback: once ignited, they will heat up at a set pace. These do not have the capacity to begin and finish.

2. Liquid Propellant: There are 2 types of liquid propellants that may be classified as follows:

(a) Mono Liquid Propeller: A mono liquid propellant is a single liquid propellant that serves as both a fuel and an oxidizer. Nitromethane, methyl nitrate, and other nitrogen-based compounds are examples.

(b) Biliquid propellant: A biliquid propellant is made up of a liquid fuel and a liquid oxidizer. Kerosene, alcohol, hydrazine, monomethylhydrazine (MMH), or liquid hydrogen are the fuels employed in this situation. Oxidizers include liquid oxygen, nitrogen tetroxide, and nitrous acid.

The following are the key benefits of liquid propellants:

1. When compared to solid propellants, they give more thrust.
2. The force may be adjusted by turning on and off the liquid propellant supply.

Dyes

Dyes are coloured compounds that are applied in solution or as a scattering to a substrate such as cotton, wool, silk, polyester, nylon, paper, leather, hair, fur, plastic material, and other textile fibres to give them a colourful and lustrous look.

Types of dyes are as follow :- 

1. Acid Dyes 
2. Basic Dyes 
3. Direct dyes
4. Fibre reactive dyes 

Food and Chemicals

Additives: Food additives are chemicals that are added to food to increase the reliability, texture, taste, odour, and nutritional or food value. Preservatives, flavourings, artificial sweeteners, colour, antioxidants, fortifiers, emulsifiers, and antifoaming agents are all examples of food additives

Antioxidants are compounds used during packaged foods such as potato chips, biscuits, morning cereals, crackers, and other snacks to reduce fat oxidation. They’re claimed to be more reactive to oxygen and have a lower rate of free radical participation in the ageing process. 

Butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT, and butylated hydroxyanisole, or BHA, are two of the most common antioxidants.

Conclusion 

Medicine or drugs are chemical compounds that helps living creatures in the cure of symptoms or the reduction of suffering. And there are many more variety of medical compound, that we used in our day to day life. Moreover the fuel that is used In the vehicle is also processes by the method of chemical reaction. The soap we used to bath, the cellphone battery and many more things that we used in our daily life is made after various chemical compound reaction. So basically through this article you will be able to understand the use of chemistry in our daily life.