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    It is many things.
    It is the study of the elements, their interactions and compounds.
    It is what happens to physics when the equations stop working.
    It is the Egyptian art.
    It is the study of the black earth.
    It is what’s left when you boil the crazy out of alchemy.
    It is what biology was before life found a way.
    It is a form of music played on the smallest of instruments whose strings are plucked with light – every group has its chord, every compound has its leitmotif, every reaction is a song.
    It is what you do after you’ve got over the initial disappointment that not everything flashes, bangs or explodes all the time like you were promised it would in the school and university demonstrations.