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Question
How is the knowledge of chemistry important to mankind?
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Solution
Importance of chemistry to mankind: chemistry plays an important role to provide us with things of daily use like toothpaste, soap, detergents, paints, clothes, medicines, fertilisers, pesticides, plastics, in preparing fuels, consumer products like glass, paper, pencils, pens, in substances used in defence like gunpowder, T.N.T. etc
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