Chasing molecules
Subtitle: poisonous products, human health, and the promise of green chemistry
By: Elizabeth Grossman.
Publisher: Island Press/Shearwater Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781597263702
Subjects: Environmental toxicology -- Popular works; Environmental chemistry -- Industrial applications -- Popular works; Consumer goods -- Toxicology -- Popular works
Genres: Popular works
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-239) 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix : principles of green chemistry and molecular design pyramid questions.