Chasing Molecules Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry /

Each day, headlines warn that baby bottles are leaching dangerous chemicals, nonstick pans are causing infertility, and plastic containers are making us fat. What if green chemistry could change all that? What if rather than toxics, our economy ran on harmless, environmentally-friendly materials?  ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grossman, Elizabeth (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2012.
Edición:1st ed. 2012.
Temas:
Environmental health.
Nanochemistry.
Environmental chemistry.
Pollution.
Medical sciences.
Environmental Health.
Environmental Chemistry.
Health Sciences.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Prologue
  • Chapter 1. There's Something in the Air
  • Chapter 2. Swimmers, Hoppers, and Fliers
  • Chapter 3. Laboratory Curiosities and Chemical Unknowns
  • Chapter 4. The Polycarbonate Problem
  • Chapter 5. Plasticizers
  • Health Risks or Fifty Years of Denial of Data? Chapter 6. The Persistent and Pernicious
  • Chapter 7. Out of the Frying Pan
  • Chapter 8. Nanotechnology
  • Perils and Promise of the Infinitesimal Chapter 9. Material Consequences
  • Toward a Greening of Chemistry. Epilogue: Redesigning the Future. Acknowledgments
  • Appendix: Principles of Green Chemistry and Molecular Design Pyramid Questions
  • Notes
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index.

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