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100	1		_aGrossman, Elizabeth. _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aChasing Molecules _h[electronic resource] : _bPoisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry / _cby Elizabeth Grossman.
264		1	_aWashington, DC : _bIsland Press/Center for Resource Economics : _bImprint: Island Press, _c2012.
300			_aXXXII, 256p. _bonline resource.
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505	0		_aPreface -- 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.
520			_aEach 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?   Elizabeth Grossman, an acclaimed journalist who brought national attention to the contaminants hidden in computers and other high tech electronics, now tackles the hazards of ordinary consumer products. She shows that for the sake of convenience, efficiency, and short-term safety, we have created synthetic chemicals that fundamentally change, at a molecular level, the way our bodies work. The consequences range from diabetes to cancer, reproductive and neurological disorders.   Yet it’s hard to imagine life without the creature comforts current materials provide—and Grossman argues we do not have to. A scientific revolution is introducing products that are “benign by design,” developing manufacturing processes that consider health impacts at every stage, and is creating new compounds that mimic rather than disrupt natural systems. Through interviews with leading researchers, Grossman gives us a first look at this radical transformation.   Green chemistry is just getting underway, but it offers hope that we can indeed create products that benefit health, the environment, and industry.
650		0	_aEnvironmental sciences.
650		0	_aNanochemistry.
650		0	_aMedicine.
650		0	_aEnvironmental chemistry.
650		0	_aEnvironmental Medicine.
650		0	_aPollution.
650	1	4	_aEnvironment.
650	2	4	_aEnvironmental Health.
650	2	4	_aNanochemistry.
650	2	4	_aEnvironmental Chemistry.
650	2	4	_aPollution, general.
650	2	4	_aPopular Science in Medicine and Health.
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