chemistry history

the chemistry of ancient times

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The history of chemistry represents a time span from ancient history to the present. By 1000 BC, civilizations used technologies that would eventually form the basis of the various branches of chemistry. Examples include extracting metals from ores, making pottery and glazes, fermenting beer and wine, extracting chemicals from plants for medicine and perfume, rendering fat into soap, making glass, and making alloys like bronze.

primitive era

Jun 20, 1000

There is no doubt that chemistry was born with the conquest of fire by man, and that its origins must be in the arts and technical trades of primitive man, of which we thought for the materials used by him and found in the remains of civilizations disappeared . Items normally found are metal, ceramic, glass , pigments and dyed fabrics , so the extraction of metals from their ores , the manufacture of glass and ceramics.