Green Chemistry and the Ten Commandments

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  1. What is a serious air pollution phenomenon resulting from an atmospheric reaction
    of sulfur dioxide?

  2. In what form may approximately half of the sulfur in coal be physically separated
    before combustion?

  3. What is a method used to separate sulfur dioxide from furnace stack gas?

  4. Name two ways in which green chemistry can be applied to reduce sulfur dioxide
    emissions.

  5. What is an important health effect of nitrogen dioxide? Why is it particularly
    important in atmospheric chemistry?

  6. What is the distinction between acid rain and acid deposition?

  7. What are five categories of adverse effects from acid precipitation?

  8. Chemically, what is distinctive about ammonia in the atmosphere?

  9. What is the historic evidence for the toxicity of elemental chlorine, Cl 2?

  10. What are some sources of atmospheric hydrogen sulfide? Is it a health concern?

  11. In what respect is atmospheric carbon dioxide essential to life on Earth? Why may
    it end up being the “ultimate air pollutant?

  12. What are some of the more harmful effects projected if global warming occurs to a
    significant extent?

  13. What can green chemistry do about global warming?

  14. What is a greenhouse gas other than carbon dioxide that is produced by
    microorganisms?

  15. What are the ingredients and conditions leading to the formation of photochemical
    smog?

  16. What substances are found in a smoggy atmosphere?

  17. What are some harmful effects of smog?

  18. What are some of the ways that green chemistry can help prevent smog?

  19. The temperature of a specific number of moles of gas occupying initially 23.0 L was
    changed from 75 ̊C to -20 ̊C at constant pressure. Recalling the significance of 273
    in such calculations, what was the volume of the gas after the temperature change?

  20. The pressure on a specific number of moles of gas occupying initially 13.0 L was
    changed from 1.15 atm to 0.900 atm at constant pressure. What was the volume of
    the gas after the temperature change?


222 Green Chemistry, 2nd ed

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