Green Chemistry and the Ten Commandments

growth of photosynthetic algae. The oxygen-rich epilimnion generally contains a high concentration of oxidized chemical species, ...

Thermocline Sediment CO 2 from respiration photosynthesisO^2 from {CH 2 O} + O 2 CRespiration O 2 + H 2 O O 2 from atmosphere CO ...

By mediating chemical reactions, such as the one above, microorganisms, particularly bacteria, largely determine the chemistry t ...

2{CH 2 O} + SO 42 - + 2H + → H 2 S(g) + 2H 2 O + 2CO 2 (g) (7.5.4) is one in which the sulfate ion loses oxygen (is reduced). As ...

Gas solubilities decrease with increasing temperature. You can see evidence of this by heating water in a pan and observing the ...

7.8. Why Natural Waters Contain Alkalinity and Calcium Most surface water and groundwater contains water alkalinity, defined a ...

Sometimes the water in the metal ion is displaced by other species. Such species include organic chelating agents, which can b ...

Colloidal particles Gas bubbles Material exchange with sediments Sediments Gas exchange with the atmosphere Surface film Figure ...

Soap, Candy, and Bathtub Ring Earlier in this chapter water hardness was mentioned in association with dissolved calcium. Wa ...

in orchards and on crops. Among the deadly compounds used for this purpose were lead arsenate, Pb 3 (AsO 4 ) 2 ; sodium arsenite ...

(C 4 H 9 ) (C 4 H 9 ) (C 4 H 9 ) Sn (C 4 H 9 ) Tetra-n-butyltin Heavy Metal Pollutants and Green Chemistry From the disc ...

this case — it happened. A green chemistry approach to this problem would be to find safer alternatives to cyanide so that there ...

does not have contact with the kinds of minerals that can neutralize the acid and keep the pH from falling low enough to damage ...

are very poorly degradable substances, such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), that tend to accumulate in sediments and in the ...

water faucet. Furthermore, fish fingerlings were killed by whatever was getting through the sewage treatment plant. The culprit ...

insecticides that polluted water and sediments. In rural areas the greater problem is from herbicides which, because they must b ...

P O NO 2 H 3 CO S H 3 CO Methyl parathion Carbamic acid H N H C O OH N N C C C CH 3 H H H H H H Nicotine Organochlorine comp ...

Plant-derived insecticides include nicotine from tobacco and rotenone extracted from the roots of some kinds of plants. Pyrethri ...

The Infamous Dioxin Some of the more severe pollution problems associated with pesticides have come from their manufacture. ...

and capacitors, as plasticizers to make plastics more flexible, to impregnate cotton and asbestos, and as additives to some epox ...