History of chemistryChemistry has existed for several years. The beginnings of chemistry were first recognized in 10,000 BC. Ancient civilizations used technologies that became the basis for many branches of chemistry. These early civilizations extracted metal from ores, made pottery and enamels, brewed beer and wine, extracted chemicals from medicinal plants, turned fat into soap, made glass, and many tasks related to chemistry were carried out. Alchemists set the stage for modern chemistry by performing experiments and recording the results. Robert Boyle wrote The Skeptical Chymist in 1661, and in this book he talks about the difference between chemistry and alchemy. Although he was not responsible for the discovery of chemistry, he is best known for Boyle's law of 1662. Antoine Lavoisier helped chemistry become a science in its own right when he developed a law conservation of mass. The law of conservation of mass relates to chemistry because it requires careful measurements and quantitative observations. Later, Jan Baptist Van Helmont suggested that there are substances other than air and gave them the name "gas". The gas comes from the Greek word "chaos" and was soon commonly used by scientists. Van Helmont conducted several experiments involving gases. He is best remembered today for his ideas on spontaneous generation, his experiments on trees over five years and for also being considered the founder of pneumatic chemistry. In 1702, Georg Stahl coined the name phlogiston to refer to the substance released during the combustion process. In 1735, Georg Brandt analyzed a dark blue pigment found in copper ore. He demonstrated that the pigment he had found contained a new element. Brandt had discovered...... in the middle of the article ......e Molecule, which explained that a chemical bond is a pair of electrons shared by two atoms. It was Lewis who introduced electronic dot diagrams, the Lewis structure. Lewis structures can be found in almost any introductory chemistry book. Chemistry has a distant past and has an even greater future ahead of it. Before chemistry, people had so many questions about how things worked and why things happened a certain way. The natural resources that surrounded everyone undoubtedly provided an excellent foundation and start for the first discoveries of chemistry. Chemistry is something that is used daily. We use chemistry to make medicine, food, and many other tasks. I think chemistry will have a big impact on our future because it has already had a huge impact on our past, and now that we have leveraged other discoveries, we can make them more advanced.