To those I always say that everything is chemical, if you think dihydrogen oxide sounds scary you should stop drinking water.
I really hate this sort of thing.
If we’re going to insist that everything made of atoms is a chemical, then we have no use for the word ‘chemical’, but we need a different word for the thing that people mean when they say ‘chemical’, which is ‘nasty new thing made in a laboratory that’s probably a poison because it wasn’t present during our evolution’.
I really hate this sort of thing.
If we’re going to insist that everything made of atoms is a chemical, then we have no use for the word ‘chemical’, but we need a different word for the thing that people mean when they say ‘chemical’, which is ‘nasty new thing made in a laboratory that’s probably a poison because it wasn’t present during our evolution’.