• Question: What is green chemisty

    Asked by aaronige to Tom on 9 Mar 2013.
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      Tom Branson answered on 9 Mar 2013:


      Green Chemistry is the term for doing chemistry that is environmentally friendly. So this means not creating any hazardous materials or waste. Also developing sustainable more efficient routes for making molecules. A lot of current chemistry uses material that are not good for the environment and so if we can use alternative methods that are safer then this is better for everybody

      The picture on my profile is of my lab mates doing a new experiment where one of the products was also actually green!

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