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I have always enjoyed the challenges of learning new things and have found Physics and Mathematics both stimulating and interesting, but have always known that my true passion is Chemistry; with its endless variation and multitude of applications its limits are only those that we cannot yet explain or have not yet thought of. This enthusiasm for the sciences stems from my parents, who instilled their love for the sciences in me. My passion was further developed for Chemistry in my primary school's yearly science week, where we took part in secondary school science demonstrations. The Chemistry sessions always gripped me the most, with all the strange lab equipment working away, it was awe inspiring; to this day chemistry intrigues me the same way it did back then. This is why I would like to increase my knowledge of the subject and more specifically how chemicals are analysed, the different methods of analytical chemistry as well as looking more in depth at the properties of substances. …show more content…

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