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  Chemistry in Everyday Life
    1.0 Chemicals In Medicine And Health Care
    2.0 Drugs And Medicines
    3.0 Dyes
    4.0 Cosmetics
    5.0 New High Performance Materials
    6.0 Ceramics
    7.0 Chemicals In Food
    8.0 Detergents
    9.0 Rocket Propellants
    10.0 Insect Sex Attractants (Pheromones)

2.3 Antibiotics
Antibiotics are now defined as chemical substances (produced wholly or partially by chemical synthesis), which in low concentration, either kill or inhibit the growth of micro organisms by intervening in their metabolic processes.
For example: (i) firetantibiotic, penicillin (ii) Chrysogenum


Types of antibiotics
The antibiotics can be either bacterial or bacteriostatic.

Bactericidal Bacteriostatic
Penicillin Erythromycin
Aminoglycosiders Tetracydine
Ofloxacin Chlroamphenicol
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