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  title info:
    title: Chasing Molecules
    sub title: Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry
  name:
    name part: Grossman, Elizabeth.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXXII, 256 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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? Elizabeth Grossman, an acclaimed journalist who brought national attention to the contaminants hidden in computers and other high tech electronics, now tackles the hazards of ordinary consumer products. She shows that for the sake of convenience, efficiency, and short-term safety, we have created synthetic chemicals that fundamentally change, at a molecular level, the way our bodies work. The consequences range from diabetes to cancer, reproductive and neurological disorders. Yet it’s hard to imagine life without the creature comforts current materials provide—and Grossman argues we do not have to. A scientific revolution is introducing products that are “benign by design,” developing manufacturing processes that consider health impacts at every stage, and is creating new compounds that mimic rather than disrupt natural systems. Through interviews with leading researchers, Grossman gives us a first look at this radical transformation. Green chemistry is just getting underway, but it offers hope that we can indeed create products that benefit health, the environment, and industry.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by Elizabeth Grossman.
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Nanochemistry
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Health
  subject:
    topic: Environmental chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Environmental health
  subject:
    topic: Pollution
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Health
  subject:
    topic: Nanochemistry
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Pollution, general
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Medicine and Health
  classification: RA565-600
  classification: 613.1
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