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hen you think about chemistry class do you picture yourself in a lab coat, hunched over a beaker of bubbling liquid? Or do you see tables and charts and calculations with arrows and numbers, subscripts and superscripts? Those are all things that students of chemistry, and actual chem- ists, do in their careers. But the study of chemistry and the role chemistry plays in our lives is so much more than lab work and formulas. Chemistry is the study of everything about matter— from its composition, to its structure, to its properties, and

Using lab equipment like this, chemists can study just about everything in the world that is made of matter.

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Black Achievement in Science: Chemistry