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Chemical synthesis
1) What is a chemical synthesis ?
A chemical synthesis is the production of a chemical compounds involving at least one chemical transformation.
Chemical synthesis are frequently used on an industrial scale to produce substances that are found in medicines, food, textiles, hygiene products, in cosmetics etc.
To achieve a synthesis a protocol must be followed.
It indicates:
- Instructions to follow
- Operations to be performed
- Material to be used
- Chemical compounds used and their quantities.
All operations described in a protocol must be followed respecting the usual safety rules for chemicals compounds.
2) Advantages of chemical synthesis
Chemistry can reproduce, through synthesis, substances found in nature such as flavorings or colorings.
A synthetic substance is identical to that found in nature and has exactly the same properties.
The Advantage of synthetic substances is to be produce at a cost much lower than the substances extracted from nature.
Natural substances are extracted from plants: we must cultivate them, wait for their maturity, their flowering, or their fruits, and then harvest them, transport them to an extraction plant.
Synthetic substances are also produced faster and in greater quantities.
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