CHEM103

Focuses on the challenges involved with manufacturing and using materials and chemicals in the modern world. Substances ranging from adhesives to asphalt, fibers to food, cars to clothes, carpets to cosmetics, diapers to drugs, and many others are based on the synthesis, processing, formulation, use and disposal or recycling of chemical entities. Thus an understanding of the basis for the environmentally sound production of diverse chemicals and materials as well as emerging alternative processes is vital for the sustainable and safe use of items made from chemicals. Students will have the opportunity to explore, describe and evaluate the myriad ways in which selected, important chemicals and materials are made as we ask, how can these processes and products become benign by design, eco-effective and "green"?

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