NCERT Class XI Chemistry Environmental Chemistry Solutions
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What do you mean by green chemistry? How will it help decrease environmental pollution?
Solution:
(a) Green chemistry is a production process that would bring about minimum pollution or deterioration to the environment.
Green chemistry aims at :
(a) Use of environment friendly medium for the reaction; and
(b) Use of methods that completely convert the reactants to products such that there are no harmful side-products formed.
This is arrived at by working out optimum conditions for synthesis such that there are no harmful side-products formed. Thus, green chemistry produces products which have no adverse impact on the environment.
Green chemistry aims at :
(a) Use of environment friendly medium for the reaction; and
(b) Use of methods that completely convert the reactants to products such that there are no harmful side-products formed.
This is arrived at by working out optimum conditions for synthesis such that there are no harmful side-products formed. Thus, green chemistry produces products which have no adverse impact on the environment.
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