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

• Main Author: Grossman, Elizabeth (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2012.
• Subjects: Environment.; Nanochemistry.; Medicine.; Health.; Environmental chemistry.; Environmental health.; Pollution.; Environmental Health.; Environmental Chemistry.; Pollution, general.; Popular Science in Medicine and Health.

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?  ...

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.