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========== When you say the word "chemicals", most people
think "chemicals bad" or "chemicals dangerous," those people say things like, "I don't give
my kids food with chemicals in it" or "that factory puts chemicals in the water." Sometimes these people are thinking of liquid
chemicals that are, for example, sprayed on crops, or gaseous chemicals that
come out of smokestacks, or exhaust pipes. But those people probably don't think of chemicals
as solids. To them, solids like thr table, here, or my
computer, or aardvarks -- that's just stuff. But it's vital to recognize that, as I've
said before, almost everything you interact with on a daily
basis is chemicals, except for like, light. And with the exception of air, the vast maj...