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What is the difference between chemistry and physical science?

What's the difference between chemistry, chemical engineering and materials science?

  • These seem like fairly similar disciplines with significant overlap to a non-specialist.

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    In the academic world there are fairly well defined boundaries between the disciplines, at least in terms of undergraduate course material. In industry and even graduate research, these lines are highly blurred and most work is interdisciplinary. Chemistry: focused on fundamental science of how molecules react with one another. Chemical engineering: focused on processes to get molecules to react with one another at scale and with a desired process yield. Materials Science: focuses on how the physical structure of materials (i.e. crystalline lattice vs. amorphous glass) affects the properties of the materials.

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You are right. Most of these distinctions are artificial, and were created centuries back, when we did not know about the underlying similarities. Meanwhile, the physicists do not care, because they have the one subject to rule them all.

Debangshu Mukherjee

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