Every day, each of us deals with  materials : with food and beverages, with textiles, dyes, cosmetic products, with detergents and cleaning agents, paper and packaging materials or metals and building materials that are processed. Each of us also carries  out chemical reactions every day : cooking and baking, gluing, driving a car, turning on and off devices that run on batteries and accumulators. Therefore, chemistry, the study of substances, surrounds us all in our everyday lives. 

The specific contribution that chemistry as a subject makes to basic scientific education lies in the experimental and intellectual examination of problems from this material world.

Everyday phenomena are made accessible by identifying and solving the underlying chemical problems.