Monday, February 4, 2008
Green Chemistry
I think that using chemistry to create substances to use that aren't toxic to human health or the environment is very useful. The link that I found gives a lot of information on how current substances (or specific ingredients they're composed of) hurt the environment in different ways. I am really interested in the examples the website gives about how green chemistry is used to make substanes that serve the same purposes as their counterparts but are harmless to the environment. For example, there is a Belgian company that manufactures biodegradable household products from renewable sources. The website also offers a lot of info on better ways to reduce waste. Right now, chemists are reseaching types of solvents that could be used for waste, "investigating alternative reactions with higher yield or atom economy link to atom economy characteristic", and much more. They have even developed polymer-based carpets that can be recycled! In my opinion, preserving the earth is a great application for chemistry and I am very interested in further researching this topic.
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heyy mica. awesome blog and very cool post. i'm just about to read it. it was great not having school today, wasn't it? well anywho, go green chemisrty!!
ok now i've read it AND i went to the website because it did sound interesting. that's very cool. very cool.
Sweet stuff. I think it's coo that you think this is important. Unfortunately, the men/women upstairs don't seem to have environmental protection at the top of their lists.
I agree it is very important that we find ways to avoid damaging the earth. Sadly the only people really working on it are private corps. But i know google has vowed to produce a new green way to make energy in 10 years, so that will be a big step.
this is really awesome. and i definitely agree that preserving the earth should be a huge priority but its not.
green chemistry is such a good idea. i mean, we need to save our environment before its really too late. we've already damaged some parts of it beyond repair, so using some new techniques that are being researched could be rly beneficial to our world.
p.s. sry for commenting so many times haha
p.p.s. i luv u
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Green chemistry is probably the most important application of chemistry in my opinion. If we don't have a world to live in what is the point of discovering other stuff? I'm jealous I didn't put this down for mine. Amazing idea.
I think green chemistry is a very useful topic to research and will be beneficial to our world. Adhesive to mimic gecko hairs also sounds really cool. It would be amazing if we could walk up walls like geckos!
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