Thursday, January 23, 2014

Week 3

* Choose your “Transitional Metal of the Week” and post a brief description
Copper's symbol is CU and its atomic number 27.  It is soft and malleable and a good conductor of heat and electricity.  It is a reddish-orange color but can be used for its green blue pigments as well.  It is a dietary trace mineral and in found in the human liver, muscle, and bone.

* Post a comment on "Neptune's Medicine Chest"

Hmmm, although the thought of a cancer curing substance is hopeful, I fear of the destruction to the ocean in order to find it.  Forests have been destroyed by the tapping of rubber trees and harvesting of hard wood and I fear the same would happen to the ocean's depths.  It seems a bit like the rape of the next frontier since we have already raped the one we inhabit.  I hope they can be smarter about the search for resources at sea than they have been on land.  

* Post a review:

Green Chemistry is necessary for the evolution of life as we know it.  Our old practices have not been working for us thus far.  I am weary though of statements like, less hazardous or safer chemicals.  It seems a little like green washing to me.  We should be looking toward non-hazardous and safe substances.  The use of renewable feedstock is a necessary adaptation to science, we cannot continue to use and abuse whats here and hope to continue to survive. 
Less Hazardous C
Less Hazardous C
Less Hazardous C

1 comment:

  1. "green washing" ... I like that. That's what happens when capitalistic greed gets hold of a wholesome idea

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