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Essay-Impact of chemistry in Indian history

Answer 1

It is known that alchemy(the older form of chemistry)had made great strides in India.Ayurveda,which used a variety of minerals,also played an important role in the development of Chemistry.It developed as iatrochemistry,which was closely related to medicine.The two main incentives for the development of Chemistry were old-age desires of human beings:to live forever and to get rich.Much Chemistry grew out of the early efforts to develop an elixir and to turn base metals into gold.It is also interesting to note that Needham claimed that earliest distillation of alcohol is attested to through the archeological find at Taxila.In fact,the ancient name is khola,which sounds so similar to it.

Answer 2

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Theory. Planck's constant (h), a physical constant was introduced by German physicist named Max Planck in 1900. The significance of Planck's constant is that 'quanta' (small packets of energy) can be determined by frequency of radiation and Planck's constant