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Chemicals and Their Uses in Our Lives

  A chemical is a substance or compound that is made by a chemical process or produced by the phenomena of chemistry. A pure chemical compound is made up of a particular set of molecules or ions. Two or more elements combined into one substance through a chemical reaction form a chemical compound. Chemicals being used extensively in millions of different commercial products have introduced many new compounds into the environment, some of which diffuse in small quantities throughout the environment, whereas others become concentrated at sites of disposal. Chemicals are not only used in commercial products but also in different types of household products that we use on a daily basis. There are many chemicals that we use on a daily basis because some chemicals are essential for cleaning our bodies and for doing other jobs, like we use isopropyl alcohol as a hand sanitizer for killing germs, esters are used in soap for bathing purposes, sodium sulphate, sodium hydroxide, and phosphate com