Environmental Chemistry Overview
One of the biggest problems across the world that influences the health of billions of people
What is pollution?
These two chemical compounds make up the majority of the atmosphere.
Why are molecular nitrogen and oxygen important?
Main chemicals responsible for maintaining heat inside the planet
What are Green House Gases?
A property that chemicals are designed to have less of
What is toxicity?
The areas where Green Chemistry applies
What is all of them?
A risk factor that is responsible for 1 in 8 deaths world wide
What is air pollution?
Process where chemical compounds are broken down by light energy
What is photolysis?
There are two main versions of this atmospheric compound
Why is Ozone so important and complex?
The goal that every product should have
What is developing products that are less toxic and more safe?
The meaning of a high atom economy
What is the most atoms of reactant that ends in the product?
The writer of the book 'Silent Spring'
Who is Rachel Carson?
The breakdown of organic molecules by bacteria and fungi
What is biodegreadation?
The ideal 50 year-term choice between Methane and Carbon Dioxide
Why is the combustion of Methane preferred?
The type of reaction that had the highest atom economy
What is an addition reaction?
The importance of Green Chemistry
What is it helps the environment by reducing harm from toxic chemicals?
The type of energy emitted from the Earth's surface
What is infrared radiation?
A major global environmental concern from 1970s to 1990s
What is stratospheric ozone layer depletion?
An event that explains the origins of SpongeBob Squarepants
What is Bikini Atolli/Marshal Islands atomic testing?
A property of chemicals used in Green Chemistry
What is degradable?
Chemicals avoided in Green Chemistry
What are chemical derivatives?
The definition of Environmental Chemistry
What is the study of sources, reactions, transport, effects, and fates of chemical species in the air, water, and soil environment?
The term used when pesticides are carried and dispersed by the wind and eventually fall back to the ground and come to rest
What is deposition?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are currently habitable while Chernobyl is inhabitable.
What is the consequence of immediate detonation of nuclear material compared to nuclear material being spread out?
The definition of a dry media reaction
What is a chemical reaction in the absence of a solvent?
The definition of Green Chemistry
What is the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances