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Subject(s)

• Green chemistry—Popular works [Browse]
• Environmental toxicology—Popular works [Browse]
• Consumer goods—Toxicology—Popular works [Browse]

Summary note

In Chasing Molecules, investigative journalist Elizabeth Grossman opens the door on a new world of chemistry-green chemistry - and the scientists who are unearthing the field's potential to transform manufacturing with unprecedented benefits to the corporate bottom line and our health. She finds that a revolution is brewing, and its rallying call is "benign by design." These scientists are creating new, non-toxic materials that work with natural systems instead of disrupting them. Traveling the world to see this cutting-edge science at work, Grossman gives us a first look at the next "big idea" in industrial technology, along with the passion, excitement, and hope on the front lines of innovation.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-239) and index.

Contents

• There's something in the air
• Swimmers, hoppers, and fliers
• Laboratory curiosities and chemical unknowns
• The polycarbonate problem
• Plasticizers : health risks or fifty years of denial of data?
• The persistent and pernicious
• Out of the frying pan
• Nanotechnology : perils and promise of the infinitesimal
• Material consequences : toward a greening of chemistry
• Epilogue : Redesigning the future
• Appendix : Principles of green chemistry and molecular design pyramid questions.

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ISBN

• 9781597263702 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1597263702 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009028279

OCLC

406122242

RCP

H - O

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