The most important discoveries of chemistry

By Renataa
  • 1525

    Anaesthetic

    Anaesthetic
    It benefits people who have surgery or something similar, with that they no longer feel pain. The most obvious advantage is the elimination of the sensory capacity to feel pain during the surgical procedure, which might otherwise be unbearable.
  • gravity

    gravity
    benefits everyone and everything, since without gravity everything would be floating, Gravity does far more than make things fall down. It governs the motion of planets around the sun, holds galaxies together and determines the structure of the universe. Due to gravity we can hit the ground without losing contact with it.
  • Steam Engine

    Steam Engine
    Steam power became the energy source for many machines and vehicles, making it cheaper and easier to produce commodities in large amounts. Steam power allowed for factories to be located anywhere. It also provided reliable power and could be used to power large machines. Steam engines were used in all sorts of applications including factories, mines, locomotives, and steamboats
  • The first vaccine

    The first vaccine
    The creation of the vaccine greatly benefited people, the vaccine makes that the people did not get sick and avoid so many deaths. A vaccine stimulates your immune system to produce antibodies, exactly like it would if you were exposed to the disease. After getting vaccinated, you develop immunity to that disease, without having to get the disease first.
  • Telegraph

    Telegraph
    Big businesses, helped by the telegraph, improved the standard of living for regular Americans. Take, for example, railroads. Railroads used telegraphs a lot because they needed to be able to communicate instantly between far-flung stations. The telegraph, therefore, allowed railroads to operate more effectively.
  • Soda water

    Soda water
    Benefit people who constantly feel hungry. Carbonated water improves digestion and helps constipation, so that empties the stomach and could possibly make someone feel hungry. Can help relieve the stomach of aches and even help people, who are suffering from nausea or indigestion, feel better.
  • Oxygen

    Oxygen
    It benefits people because, stimulate brain activity, increase memory capacity, boost concentration, develop stronger alertness, raise energy levels, improve strength, build endurance, detox your blood. We breathe because oxygen is needed to burn the fuel in our cells to produce energy.) ... (Oxygen is brought into the lungs via breathing, where it is transported by red blood cells to the entire body to be used to produce energy.
  • Infrared

    Infrared
    Several studies have looked at using infrared saunas in the treatment of chronic health problems, such as high blood pressure, congestive heart failure, dementia and Alzheimer's disease, headache, type 2 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis, and found some evidence of benefit. Infrared thermal-imaging cameras are used to detect heat loss in insulated systems, to observe changing blood flow in the skin, and to detect the overheating of electrical components.
  • Battery

    Battery
    Allows for better use of renewable energy. The use of batteries to store this power is a necessity, ensuring the power can be used whenever you need it. Includes providing backup power during a power outage
  • The use of chlorine as bleach

    The use of chlorine as bleach
    Allow to disinfect various types of surfaces, including reusable equipment in hospitals, medical laboratories, doctor's offices and nursing homes, to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. has been used for generations to disinfect all kinds of environmental surfaces, help keep drinking water germ-free, and make swimming pools healthy.
  • Caffeine

    Caffeine
    It benefits people by boosting the central nervous system by increasing energy levels while reducing fatigue and tiredness and increasing mental focus and concentration. Is a powerful molecule used in medicine as a cough suppressant and analgesic drug, is known as a stimulant substance found in stimulants such as coffee, tea, or energy drinks
  • Electricity

    Electricity
    Increased access to electricity improves education, entertainment, health, comfort, protection, and productivity . Electricity has many uses in our day to day life. It is used for lighting rooms, working fans and domestic appliances like using electric stoves and more. All these provide comfort to people.
  • Cocoa powder

    Cocoa powder
    helps the people to reduce inflammation and can protect you from diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. Since cocoa is rich in phytonutrients but low in fat and sugar, the calories you get from cocoa powder will be packed with healthy chemicals. is essentially used as flavor in biscuits, ice cream, dairy drinks and cakes. Apart its use as flavor it is also used in the manufacture of coatings for confectioners or frozen desserts.
  • Moldboard Plow

    Moldboard Plow
    Can provide soil pulverization and nearly complete burial of weed seeds and residue. The actual use of it is taking care of the land: Burying trash and crop residue, aerating the soil, helping to control disease and pest pressure.
  • Pasteurisation

    Pasteurisation
    It prevents diseases like scarlet fever, tuberculosis, brucellosis, and diphtheria. Eliminating harmful bacteria like Listeria, Salmonella, Listeria, Staphylococcus aureus, Yersinia, Campylobacter, and Escherichia. Is a process in which packaged and non-packaged foods are treated with mild heat, usually to less than 100 °C (212 °F), to eliminate pathogens and extend shelf life.
  • The periodic table of elements

    The periodic table of elements
    It affect people because it is organized to provide a great deal of information about elements and how they relate to one another in one easy-to-use reference. It is easier to remember the properties of an element if its position in the periodic table is known. The periodic table can be used to derive relationships between the various element properties, and also to predict chemical properties and behaviours of undiscovered or newly synthesized elements.
  • Artificial sweetener

    Artificial sweetener
    People who like to eat sweet things since Sweeteners with lower calorie intake, get the same sweet taste that is sought by adding sugar. Artificial sweeteners, especially in drinks, can be useful to reduce energy consumption as well as body weight and reduce the risk of type II diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
  • Liquid crystals

    Liquid crystals
    Liquid crystals are everywhere. They are used in all kinds of display devices including computer monitors and laptop screens, TVs, clocks, visors, and navigation systems. Each pixel in a monitor is an assembly of liquid crystals controlled by its own electromagnetic field.
  • X rays

    X rays
    X-rays can diagnose a plethora of maladies, from breast cancer to broken bones. Offering the ability to perform quick diagnoses with instant results, digital X-rays take the guess work out of detection.The most familiar use of x-rays is checking for fractures , but x-rays are also used in other ways.
  • Radioactivity

    Radioactivity
    Today, to benefit humankind, radiation is used in medicine, academics, and industry, as well as for generating electricity. In addition, radiation has useful applications in such areas as agriculture, archaeology, space exploration, law enforcement, geology, and many others.
  • Radiation

    Radiation
    Today, to benefit humankind, radiation is used in medicine, academics, and industry, as well as for generating electricity. In addition, radiation has useful applications in such areas as agriculture, archaeology , space exploration, law enforcement, geology , and many others.
  • Electrons

    Electrons
    Scientists knew about electricity and worked with it for many years before they understood that its current was actually composed of electrons. Many scientists worked with cathode tubes which created streams of electricity, but they were not sure how it actually worked.
  • Polythene

    Polythene
    It’s a highly sought plastic material, and if you are in any business involving plastic, odds are you have become quite acclimated with polyethylene. Is a highly flexible material with unique flow properties, making it great for plastic film applications such as shopping bags. The primary uses of polythene are in packaging film, garbage bags, grocery bags, insulation for wires and cables, agricultural mulch, bottles, toys, and houseware.
  • Air conditioning

    Air conditioning
    Most people use air conditioners to stay more comfortable in their homes or offices during hot and humid summer weather. Under extreme conditions, air conditioners may keep elderly and other vulnerable people safer from heat-induced health problems. The main function of air conditioner is to change adverse temperature.
  • Plastic

    Plastic
    Plastics help us protect the environment by reducing waste, lowering greenhouse gas emissions, and saving energy Non-renewable fuels are saved as plastics are made from petroleum. At the end of their useful life they can be used as fuel. Natural resources are saved. Is used across almost every sector, including to produce packaging, in building and construction, in textiles, consumer products, transportation, electrical and electronics and industrial machinery.
  • The Haber-Bosch process

    The Haber-Bosch process
    converts hydrogen and nitrogen to ammonia, could be one of the most important industrial chemical reactions ever developed. The process made ammonia fertilizer widely available, helping cause a world population boom as yields from agriculture increased rapidly in a short time. Enabled the large-scale production of ammonia and with that, the transformation of our society and lives through the first chemical global revolution.
  • Solar panel

    Solar panel
    it benefit the planet because Reduces Air Pollution,Reduce Water Usage,Reduces Dependence On Nonrenewable Energy Source,etc. Solar power systems derive clean, pure energy from the sun. Uses captured sunlight to create photovoltaic power or concentrated solar power for solar heating.
  • figured out that we need vitamins

    Humans benefit, because the human body needs vitamins to work properly. They help shore up bones, heal wounds, and bolster your immune system. They also convert food into energy, and repair cellular damage.They are a group of substances that are necessary for normal cell function, growth, and development.
  • Nylon

    Nylon
    Helps people a lot and does not pollute the planet so much, It has excellent abrasion & wear resistance, It has high tensile and compressive strength,It's known for its low coefficient of friction it makes for easy machining.Nylon polymers have found significant commercial applications in fabric and fibers,in shapes, and in films.
  • Teflon

    Teflon
    benefits many people, because ,It is non-stick, It is heat-resistant and cold-resistant, it is chemical-resistant, it has great electrical properties, a wide range of products can be coated in teflon, it has an excellent service life, retaining its properties over a long period of time.
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance

    Nuclear magnetic resonance
    allows users to obtain rich structural information from the vibrations of the molecules in their natural environment while they're still intact. Is widely used to determine the structure of organic molecules in solution and study molecular physics and crystals as well as non-crystalline materials.
  • Penicillin

    Penicillin
    Is given to patients with an infection caused by bacteria. Prevents the bacteria from synthesizing peptidoglycan, a molecule in the cell wall that provides the wall with the strength it needs to survive in the human body. Fleming first used the purified penicillin to treat streptococcal meningitis.
  • The structure of insulin

    The structure of insulin
    When you eat, your pancreas releases insulin to help your body make energy out of glucose, a type of sugar found in carbohydrates. The insulin benefits because decrease the effects of symptoms of high blood sugar , such as fatigue and frequent need to urinate. Reduce the risk of developing diabetic complications. Decrease pressure on the pancreas to produce insulin. Insulin is used to control blood sugar in people
  • The pill

    The pill
    The birth control pill is a safe, simple, and convenient way to prevent pregnancy. It also has other benefits like reducing acne, making your periods lighter and more regular, and easing menstrual cramps. The pills has so many benefits such as: Regulation of menstrual periods, decreased menstrual cramps, treatment for acne, treatment for polycystic ovary syndrome, lowered risk of anemia, lowered risk for cancers such as ovarian and uterus cancer.
  • Taxol

    Taxol
    it is one of the most effective treatments of cancer in the world. This drug works by preventing cells from dividing, which ultimately leads to the death of the cell. For cancer, whose cells notoriously divide very rapidly, Taxol is like a poison. Is a chemotherapy medication used to treat a number of types of cancer.
  • LCD Screens

    LCD Screens
    Smartphones and social media etc have revolutionised our lives, but these have only been possible because of the LCD screen. they benefits are that they have energy-efficient properties, they last for a very long time, support backlighting with light-emitting diode, You don’t have to worry about screen burn-in with LCDs. Are used in LCD projectors and portable consumer devices such as digital cameras, watches, digital clocks, calculators, and mobile telephones, including smartphones.
  • LSD

    LSD
    Now, emerging research is beginning to change the perception of LSD from a drug that can negatively affect mental health and wellbeing, to one that can alleviate the symptoms of anxiety and depression. Its benefits are also being studied in relation to helping individuals who are trying to overcome drug dependency
  • Fullerenes

    Fullerenes
    Fullerene is able to fit inside the hydrophobic cavity of HIV proteases, inhibiting the access of substrates to the catalytic site of enzyme. Fullerenes offers many skincare benefits. it helps protect the skin against free radicals which are one of the key causes of aging and various diseases including cancer. It can be used as radical scavenger and antioxidant. At the same time, if exposed to light, fullerene can produce singlet oxygen in high quantum yields.