Chemistry is considered an Islamic science by all means, as the word chemistry had not even been invented in any language or civilization before the Islamic civilization; neither the ancient Egyptian civilization nor the Greek civilization. In European languages, the word ‘chemistry’ is written as ‘Alchemie.’ It is a well-known fact that every Latin word that starts with ‘Al-’ has an Arabic origin. An example of that would be “alcohol,” “algebra”...etc

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