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ChemCom
Chemistry in the Community
Souderton, PA
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ChemCom
Chemistry in the Community
Souderton, PA
Outline notes will become available via
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Research the following sites. Develop a report on the importance of clean water and ways that we can monitor the water for drinking safety. Include water treatment methods and chemical analysis strategies to determine the safety of the water.
Properties of Water Unit
- About salt
- American Water Works Association
- ATSDR - HazDat Database
- Conservation/Water-Related Internet Resources
- Ground Water Institute
- Oil Spill Public Information Center
- many listings which describe the Exxon oil spill of 1989
- TEXT-Trieve Online MSDS Resource Project
- The Boston Harbor Cleanup: The Deer Island Sewage Treatment Facility
- The Water Treatment FAQ
- The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Fish
- links to many topics about fish. It includes information about efforts to protect waterways
- The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Wastewater Engineering
Chemical Resources Unit
- AGRA Earth & Enviromental's Garbage Page
- Ask-A-Geologist
- Metals - Aluminum
- Mill Seat Landfill
- Renewed interest in copper mining
- The Copper Page
- The Home Page of Global Recycling Network
Petroleum Chemistry Unit
- American Hydrogen Association [Home Page]
- FAQ about Hydrogen, hydrogen powered cars and hydrogen fuel cells
- American Petroleum Institute
- ANWR
- Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge
- ATSDR - Public Health Statement: Benzene (1989)
- This site describes the effect of benzene on humans
- B.U. Center for Polymer Studies: Projects
- Behavior of Pesticides in the Environment
- describes how farming pesticides reach other places in the environment
- Benzene
- its uses, its health effects
- EcoNet's Toxics, Hazards & Wastes Resources
- major list of sites that deal with topics such as recycling, hazardous waste, toxicology, pesticides and environmental groups
- Energy Quest -- Energy Education from the California Energy Commission
- interactive energy game which surveys the various sources of energy
- GreenWheels' WWW EV Resource List
- this page is a list of various sites that deal with electric powered cars
- Pesticide Action Network North America
- PLASTICS MUSEUM
- information on various types of plastics and their uses
- Poly-Links - Plastics and Polymers Web Server
- Polymers - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- types of polymers , properties, how they are recycled
- Renewable Energy Technologies
- The homepage of Sandia Lab in N.M. where the government experiments with alternative energy sources
- The Chemistry of Carbon
- summary of carbon chemistry, diamonds, graphite, and Kevlar, a high strength carbon compound
- The Department of Energy's (DOE's) Alternative Fuels Data Center
- The Dioxin Home Page
- where is it found in the environment?
Nuclear Chemistry Unit
- DOE Office of Human Radiation Experiments Home Page
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki Gallery Exhibition
- nuke Home Page
- numerous links
- Radiation Effects Research Foundation
- Radiation Protection HomePage.
- Table of the Nuclides
- The Geology of Radon
- What is radon and how is it formed in the earth?
- USGS Radon Home Page
- information about the formation of radon in the earth and the occurrence of radon in the US
Properties of Air Unit
- Air Pollution
- site contains good graphics and text that summarizes the effect and sources of air pollution
- Chemistry I
- contains a good list of other sites on the topic of GLOBAL WARMING
- EcoNet's Acid Rain Resources
- links to a variety of sites that have readings and experiments about acid rain
