The chemical century : molecular manipulation and its impact on the 20th century /
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| Language: | English |
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Oakville, ON :
Apple Academic Press Inc.,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Power from Molecules. Explosives and propellants: power to breach mountains, wage war, and visit the moon
- Hydrocarbons as fuels and petrochemicals: shaping the past, dominating the present, complicating the future
- Part II: Making Things We Use. The chemical industry: an overview
- Halogenated hydrocarbons: persistence, toxicity, and problems
- Polymers: making new materials
- Household and personal care products: cleaning up and looking good
- Silicones: from contact lenses to pavement sealants
- Part III: Chemistry and Food. Chemistry and agriculture: helping to feed the world
- Chemistry, food and the modern diet: what's in food besides food?
- Vitamins and nutrition
- Part IV: Molecules for the Treatment of Illness. Drug discovery, development, and distribution
- Antibiotics: the battle with the microbes
- Analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, and anesthetic drugs: dealing with pain, inflammation, and fever
- Antihypertensive drugs: controlling blood pressure
- Steroids: arthritis, fertility, heart attacks, and home run records
- Diabetes and antidiabetic therapy: control of glucose
- Drugs for treatment of neurological and psychological conditions
- Antimalarial and other antiparasitic drugs
- Response to the Aids pandemic
- Part V: Molecular Biology and Its Application. DNA structure, sequencing, synthesis, and modification: making biology molecular
- Applications of biotechnology: biology doing chemistry.