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What do you mean by green chemistry? How will it help decrease environmental pollution?
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Answer
Green chemistry is a way of thinking and is about utilising the existing knowledge and principles of chemistry and other sciences to reduce the adverse effect of pollution.
For example:
For example:
- Automobile engines have been fitted with catalytic converters which prevent the release of the vapours of hydrocarbons and oxides of nitrogen into acrolein and peroxyacetyl nitrate.
- $\mathrm{CO}_2$ has replaced CFCs as blowing agents in the manufacture of polystyrene foam sheets.
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