Chasing Molecules : Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry.
Title:
Chasing Molecules : Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry.
Author:
Grossman, Elizabeth.
ISBN:
9781610911573
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (283 pages)
Contents:
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Prologue -- Chapter One: There's Something in the Air -- Chapter Two: Swimmers, Hoppers, and Fliers -- Chapter Three: Laboratory Curiosities and Chemical Unknowns -- Chapter Four: The Polycarbonate Problem -- Chapter Five: Plasticizers: Health Risks for Fifty Years of Denial of Data? -- Chapter Six: The Persistent and Pernicious -- Chapter Seven: Out of the Frying Pan -- Chapter Eight: Nanotechnology: Perils and Promise of the Infinitesimal -- Chapter Nine: Material Consequences: Toward a Greening of Chemistry -- Epilogue: Redesigning the Future -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Abstract:
Elizabeth Grossman, an acclaimed journalist who brought national atten.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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