Green Chemistry and the Ten Commandments

Index 375

Regulatory proteins 129
Renewable energy 150
Replacement reaction 89
Reproduction 226, 233
Reproductive system,
target of toxic substances
332
Resilience in life systems
235
Resonance structures 69,
115
Respiration 229
Respiratory system, target
of toxic substances 332
Restoration ecology 245
Reverse osmosis 189
Reversible chemical
reaction 82
Rhizobium bacteria,
nitrogen fixation 40, 265
Rhizosphere 261
Ribonucleic acid, RNA
131
Ribosomes 227
Ricin 339
Risk reduction 12
Rivers 258
Robust character of
industrial ecosystems
289
Rocks 252
Rotenone insecticide 181
Roundup herbicide 182,
274

S

Salinity in water 177
Salmonella bacteria 340
Salt 76
Sanitary landfills 259
Sarin 338
Schrader, Gerhard 338

Scrubbers 207

Second commandment

352

Secondary minerals 252

Secure landfills 260

Sedimentation of particles

207

Sediments 166, 174

Selectivity enhancement

302

Semiconductors 37

Sensible heat 202

Sequential use of water

188

Service products 286

Seventh commandment

361

Sewage 178, 189

Sexual reproduction 233

Shell, outer 35

Shells, electron 34

Shigella dysenteriae

bacteria 340

Silent Spring 8

Silicates 252

Silicon 45

Simon, Julian 347

Single bond 109

Sinkholes 256

Sixth commandment 360

Skin, target of toxic

substances 332

Slimicides 179

Smog, photochemical 217

harmful effects 219

Sod 234

Sodium 44

Sodium chlorate 331

Sodium chloride 58

Sodium stearate (soap) 56,

173

Softening, water 90

Soil 253, 261

conservation 271

erosion 269

organic matter 261

solution 263

Solar energy 139, 150,

356

direct and indirect 139

Solar flux 137

Solids, state of matter 23

Solvay process 102

Solvents 300

Soman 338

Spheres of the

environment 3

Standard solution 100

Starch 127

States of matter 23

Steroids 130

Stoichiometry 95

Stratification of water 164

Stratosphere 198

Streams 204

Strong acid 74

Strong base 76

Strontium-90 185

Structural formulas 112

Structural isomers 112

Structural proteins 129

Structure activity

relationships 294

Subatomic particles 27

Substitution of materials

288

Substitution reactions 89,

113

Sulfur 46

Sulfur dioxide, air

pollutant 207

Sun, energy from 136

Supercritical fluid 301

Surface albedo 253

Sustainability 348