Chemical Blog

There is no doubt that chemical compounds have had a tremendous impact on our Society in both positive and negative ways. The DOW chemical company motto, "Better living through chemistry" is both true and misleading. Modern medicines, food preservatives, fertilizers, plastics, etc, and dynamite, nerve gasses, Agent Orange, etc. and even common salt and sugar can have mostly positive or negative aspects. The purpose of this blog posting is to present one compound, for example, DDT, and explain how it has been used to help or harm society.