Green Chemistry
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Author(s): D. Warren
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
ISBN: 0854049495
Format: softback
98pp
Price: £69.50
Review Date: 21 November 2001
Review: Green Chemistry was first defined by the US Environmental Protection Agency as 'the utilization of a set of principles that reduces or eliminates the use or generation of hazardous substances in the design, manufacture and application of chemical products'. This resource provides information on green and environmental chemistry for 11-19 year old students and their teachers. It contains sections on: the background to green chemistry, which will enable teachers to update their knowledge; a life-cycle analysis of poly(ethylene) for the students to decide upon the greenest cycle; and a study of aluminium extraction followed by a problem-solving exercise – how to extract a fictitious metal, tabbium, from its ore, tabcite