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Unfortunately chemistry is a mystery to many. And that suits the hucksters just fine. It sets the stage for cashing in on chemical ignorance by bamboozling people with scientific sounding balderdash. Ignorance, though, is not total. There is one molecular formula that people do tend to recognize and that is, good old H
2O. Then if you press them to name an important chemical in the body, chances are they will come up with DNA. And they are likely to have some sort of mental picture of the double helix structure of DNA, since after all, it’s been widely featured in popular books, movies and TV shows. You can hardly miss the huge model of DNA on the set of The “Big Bang Theory!”