SciShow: 5 Ways Chemistry Is Making Your Life Greener

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Content of the Lesson: The path that products take to get onto store shelves doesn’t always leave the best impact on the environment. But with green chemistry, chemists have found ways to make the production of some items safer for both people and the planet. Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Silas Emrys, Jb Taishoff, Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/greenchemistry/principles/12-principles-of-green-chemistry.html https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/green-chemistry-benign-by-design/ https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/bk-1994-0577.ch001 https://hero.epa.gov/hero/index.cfm/reference/details/reference_id/1227401 https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/MMG/MMG.asp?id=230&tid=42 https://www.chemengonline.com/supercritical-co2-a-green-solvent/?printmode=1 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-is-caffeine-removed-t/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4168859/ https://www.aidic.it/cet/17/57/284.pdf https://hightechextracts.com/supercritical-co2s-extraction-efficiency/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK9921/ https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/169909-biocatalysts-for-more-ecofriendly-chemicals https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/sc/c9sc05746c#!divAbstract https://www.britannica.com/science/transaminase https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2019.00147/full https://application.wiley-vch.de/books/sample/352730715X_c01.pdf https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Polymerase-Chain-Reaction-Fact-Sheet http://www.jofamericanscience.org/journals/am-sci/0204/12-0205-mahongbao-am.pdf https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4020-6241-4_6 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211558716300231 http://www.inchem.org/documents/ukpids/ukpids/ukpid86.htm https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-10/documents/award_recipients_1996_2016.pdf https://www.fs.fed.us/t-d/pubs/pdf/hi_res/93511208hi.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652619301799 https://www.foodpackagingforum.org/fpf-2016/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/FPF_Dossier10_PFASs.pdf https://www.usfa.fema.gov/training/coffee_break/021120.html https://www.solbergfoam.com/getattachment/678ee341-8f4c-4a2f-b527-993568c6b606/Firefighting-Foam-and-the-Environment.aspx Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/coffee-gm1214079846-353085751 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/green-coffee-beans-background-gm1215781496-354250215 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/coal-powder-gm1204898982-346881112 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Essigs%C3%A4ureethylester.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CriticalPointMeasurementEthane.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/organic-green-coffee-grains-gm1129778511-298568628 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/pharmaceutical-industry-medicine-pills-are-filling-in-the-plastic-bottle-on-gm859050944-141890781 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/type-2-diabetes-treatment-gm972354458-264709840 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aspartate_transaminase.png https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/simvastatin-molecular-structure-isolated-on-black-gm490076222-75021073 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glasbottles_containing_Butyllithium,_Buli.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/person-pouring-detergent-in-lid-gm949218796-259124422 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/liquid-green-gm157526113-11403329 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/firefighters-extinguish-a-fire-fire-foam-and-fire-gm1255150745-367100689 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cellulose-Ibeta-from-xtal-2002-3D-balls.png https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/scientist-with-dna-copying-real-time-cycler-wide-gm177381768-20558086 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/seamless-dna-pattern-gm472387273-36972074 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/smartphone-mobile-phone-on-blue-background-long-shadow-flat-design-gm618979678-107868073 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/collection-of-birds-robin-red-cardinal-tits-sparrow-bullfinches-waxwing-isolated-on-gm1176245279-327866244 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/fireman-extinguishing-a-burning-car-with-foam-gm1056471698-282342925 https://bit.ly/2LHRJSU https://bit.ly/38Gmp04


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