Chemistry vs. Pharmacy — What's the Difference?

Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the elements that make up matter to the compounds composed of atoms, molecules and ions: their composition, structure, properties, behavior and the changes they undergo during a reaction with other substances.In the scope of its subject, chemistry occupies an intermediate position between physics and biology.

Pharmacy is the clinical health science that links medical science with chemistry and it is charged with the discovery, production, disposal, safe and effective use, and control of medications and drugs. The practice of pharmacy requires excellent knowledge of drugs, their mechanism of action, side effects, interactions, mobility and toxicity.

The science of the composition, structure, properties, and reactions of matter, especially of atomic and molecular systems.

A shop or hospital dispensary where medicinal drugs are prepared or sold

The composition, structure, properties, and reactions of a substance.

The art of preparing and dispensing medical drugs.

The elements of a complex entity and their dynamic interrelation

A place where medical drugs are prepared, dispensed, or sold. Also called apothecary.

Mutual attraction or sympathy; rapport

A place where prescription drugs are dispensed; a dispensary.

(uncountable) The branch of natural science that deals with the composition and constitution of substances and the changes that they undergo as a consequence of alterations in the constitution of their molecules.

The science of medicinal substances comprising pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacology, phytochemistry and forensics.

(countable) An application of chemical theory and method to a particular substance.

The occupation of a pharmacist.

The chemical properties and reactions of a particular organism, environment etc.

The art or practice of preparing and preserving drugs, and of compounding and dispensing medicines according to prescriptions of physicians; the occupation of an apothecary or a pharmaceutical chemist.

(informal) The mutual attraction between two people; rapport.

A place where medicines are compounded; a drug store; an apothecary's shop.

That branch of science which treats of the composition of substances, and of the changes which they undergo in consequence of alterations in the constitution of the molecules, which depend upon variations of the number, kind, or mode of arrangement, of the constituent atoms. These atoms are not assumed to be indivisible, but merely the finest grade of subdivision hitherto attained. Chemistry deals with the changes in the composition and constitution of molecules. See Atom, Molecule.

The art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines,

An application of chemical theory and method to the consideration of some particular subject; as, the chemistry of iron; the chemistry of indigo.

A retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold

A treatise on chemistry.

The science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions

The way two individuals relate to each other;