Chemistry in the Work of Nature

14 July 2007

Have you ever though of how important colors are to us? What would happen if the world would be monochrome? You can imagine how dull, sad, discomforting this would be, unless this world of ours is also boring. The modern world can’t be separated from color that is present in the details of the daily existence, from the deliberately colored objects to the ambiance of the parks and of the streets. Our sensibility to color, to the discretion, the refinement and the fantasy in using colors, all these influence the biological and the psychological equilibrium.

The 17th century marks the debut of the interpretation of the color as a physical phenomenon, on the basis of Newton’s theory. These days, the science of color has close connection to arts, biology, physics, chemistry, psychology, geology, and so on. Until the 19th century there have been used only the natural dyes, but in 1856 it has been discovered a coloring substance. In the same period, chemistry developed as a science. Moreover, the chemistry of the dyes has become a component of the organic chemistry during the formation of the first scientific theories.

The fabrication of the coloring substances has always brought many benefits even in the periods of economic recession because the value of the dyed product is twenty times higher than the value of the un-dyed product.

But if we think of the food that was colored, then we see the limitations and the flaws of the dyed products. We have to take into consideration the fact that these coloring substances are extremely toxic, many of them causing even different types of cancer and other abnormalities at the level of our body. Therefore, chemistry can be both benefic from an economical point of view, but also destructive for the health system.

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