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Aspirin and Chemistry

Aspirin, one of the first drugs to come into common usage, is still mostly the widely used in the world - approximately 35,000 metric tonnes are produced and consumed annually, enough to make over 100 billion standard aspirin tablets every year.

<--This is aspirin's chemical structure.

Today, approximately 80,000,000 tablets of aspirin are consumed daily by Americans.

It is important for chemists to continue to study Aspirin and the effects they have on people, because new information continues to be discovered. Not only new side effects are found, but new benefits as well. Considering how many Americans acquire aspirin daily, chemists will need to continue with their research.media type="youtube" key="MB_rcmmpC6s?rel=0" height="315" width="560" This video shows some unusual ways to use aspirin, discovered thanks to continued research. http://www.ccmr.cornell.edu/education/ask/index.html?quid=596 [|LINk]