I am taking a chemistry class and we have been asked to write a chemistry paper for the final assignment. When I started thinking about a topic the wheels started to turn. I than found myself asking the question, what is chemistry exactly? Chemistry is the scientific study of interactions of a chemical substance that are constituted of atoms or the subatomic particles that include protons, electrons, and neutrons. Atoms combine the produce molecules or crystals. Chemistry is often called "the central science" because it connects the other natural sciences such as astronomy, physics, material science, biology, and geology. The genesis of chemistry can be traced to certain practices, known as alchemy, which had been practiced for several millennia in various parts of the world.
Then I wonder that a chemical reaction is. A chemical reaction is a transformation of some substances into one or more other substances. It can be symbolically depicted through a chemical equation. The number of atoms on the left and the right in the equation for a chemical transformation is most often equal. The nature of chemical reactions is that a substance may undergo the energy changes that may accompany it are constrained by certain basic rules, known as chemical laws.
So what is a chemical law? Chemical laws are those laws of nature relevant to chemistry. The most fundamental concept in chemistry is the law of conservation of mass, which states that there is no detectable change in the quantity of matter during an ordinary chemical reaction. Modern physics have shown that it is actually energy that is conserved, and that energy and mass are related; a concept which becomes important in nuclear chemistry. Conservation of energy leads to the important concepts of equilibrium, thermodynamics, and kinetics. So now with all that said; I can get to the real question that has been bugging