You may make fun, those silly stock photos of people in white coats pouring things into test tubes is actually what most people think when they hear “chemistry”. And it isn’t a wrong idea. You mix some chemicals with some other chemicals, and you get molecules – multiple atoms bonded…
Imagine you are standing in a freezer. You look at an ice cube. “Ah, a solid, yes, this makes a lot of sense to me,” you think. But suddenly, it begins to melt. “Did someone turn up the temperature?” No. The laws of physics you remember from high school tell…