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CHEMISTRY
CHEMISTRY - Greek word χημεία (khēmeia) meaning "cast together" or "pour together“ - Arabic word "al-kimia" (alchemy), "the art of transformation".
CHEMISTRY - Robert Boyle – first person to use the modern name for chemistry in his treatise The Skeptical Chymist. - Studies the properties, composition, and structure of matter “Law of Gases” – Boyle’s Law
MATTER - Anything that occupies space and has mass. Volume– space occupied Mass – amount of matter