History of chemistry Chemistry has existed for several years. The beginning of chemistry was first recognized in 10,000 BC. Ancient civilizations used technologies that became the basis of many branches of chemistry. These early civilizations extracted metal from ores, made pottery and glaze, fermented beer and wine, extracted chemicals from plants for medicine, turned fat into soap, made glass, and performed many chemistry-related tasks. Alchemists lay the foundation for modern chemistry by performing experiments and recording the results. Robert Boyle wrote The Skeptical Chymist in 1661, and in this book he talks about the difference between chemistry and alchemy. Although not the original discovery of chemistry, he is best known for Boyle's law of 1662. Antoine Lavoisier helped chemistry become a full-fledged science when he developed the law of conservation of mass. The law of conservation of mass relates to chemistry because it requires careful measurements and quantitative observations. Later Jan Baptist Van Helmont suggested the existence of other substances besides air and gave them the name “gas”. The gas originates from the Greek word "chaos" and soon became commonly used among scientists. Van Helmont conducted several gas experiments. Today he is best remembered for his ideas on spontaneous generation, his five-year tree experiment, and for being considered the founder of pneumatic chemistry. In 1702 Georg Stahl coined the name phlogiston to indicate the substance released during the combustion process. In 1735 Georg Brandt analyzed a dark blue pigment found in copper ore. He demonstrated that the pigment he had found contained a new element. Brandt had discovered......halfway through the paper......and the Molecule, which discussed that a chemical bond is a pair of electrons shared by two atoms. Lewis was the one who introduced electronic dot diagrams, the Lewis structure. Lewis structures are found in almost every introductory chemistry book. Chemistry is now distant and has an even broader future ahead of it. Before chemistry there were so many questions among people about how things worked and why things were a certain way. The natural resources that surrounded everyone were certainly an excellent basis and a beginning for the first discoveries of chemistry. Chemistry is something that is used every day. We use chemistry to produce medicines, food and many other activities. I think chemistry will have a big impact on our future because it's already had such a big impact on our past, and now that we've stemmed other discoveries we can make them more advanced