Chemistry & Biochemistry

Class in Chemistry, Tuskegee Institute - NYPL Digital Collection

Welcome to the FAU Libraries subject guide to Chemistry and Biochemistry. Chemistry is the scientific study of the composition, structure, properties and behavior of the molecules and elements of which matter is made. Biochemistry is a sub-discipline of Chemistry and Biology. The discipline focuses its study on the molecules and elements that make up living beings.

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Things I Won't Work With, because we always wonder about the worst, the most reactive, the most flammable....

A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts. -Isaac Asimov