The importance of carbon compounds in our daily life
• Foods [starch, sugar, fats, vitamins, proteins]
• Fuels [wood, coal, alcohol, petrol]
• Household and commercial articles [paper, soap, cosmetics, oils, paints]
• Textile fabrics [cotton, wool, silk, linen, rayon, nylon]
• Drugs and disinfectants [penicillin, quinine, aspirin, sulpha drugs]
• Poisons [opium, strychnine]
• Perfumes [vanillin, camphor]
• Explosives [nitro glycerine, dynamite, picric acid, TNT]
• Dyes [indigo, congo red, malachite green]
• War gases [mustard gas, chloropicrin, lewisite]
