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Green chemistry aims to?
Design chemical products and process that maximize profits
Design safer chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances
Design chemical products and processes that work most efficiently
Utilize non-renewable energy

Which of the following are among the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry?
Design commercially viable products
Use only new solvents
Use catalysts, not stoichiometric reagents
Re-use waste

Green chemists reduce risk by?
Reducing the hazard inherent in a chemical product or process
Minimizing the use of all chemicals
Inventing technologies that will clean up toxic sites
Developing recycled products

Which of the following is a challenge for green chemists?
Awareness of the benefits of green chemistry
Developing chemicals that are recyclable
Training for cleaning up chemical spills
Knowing when to reduce and eliminate hazardous waste

Business benefits of green chemistry include?

1. Reduced costs associated with waste treatment and disposal
2. Innovating 'greener' products to entice customers
3. Greater compliance with environmental legislation
4. All of the above

What is the U.S. Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award?
a. An award related to recycling
b. An award for industry only
c. The only chemistry award given by the President
d. Challenges companies to become fuel efficient

The first listed of the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry is?
a. Prevent waste
b. Catalysis
c. Atom economy
d. Benign solvents

This word is synonymous with green chemistry and also means harmless, or gentle and not life threatening?
a. Sustainable
b. Benign
c. User friendly
d. Greenness

Which of the following is the greenest solvent?
a. Formaldehyde
b. Benzene
c. Ethanol
d. Water

The figure above shows a process that is often used as part of which ‘green’ product design system?
a. Market Flow Analysis
b. Customer Market Flow Analysis
c. Life Cycle Assessment
d. Product Life Analysis

The term which refers to the breakup within a compound due to microbial activity is?
a. Microbial degradation
b. Agro-degradation
c. Photo-degradation
d. Decomposition

Which one of the following three terms is used in the ‘sustainability triangle’?
a. Micro-economics
b. Planet
c. Social responsibility

The term used to measure a product or person’s environmental impact is?
a. Handprint
b. CO₂ print
c. Footprint
d. Hazardous print

Used to indicate the level of contaminants present, the term ‘PPM’ means?
a. Parts-per-micron
b. Parts-per-million
c. Parts-per-mass
d. Parts-per-molecule

Environmental benefits of green chemistry include?
a. Fewer raw materials and natural resources used
b. Cleaner production technologies & reduced emissions
c. Smaller quantities of hazardous waste to be treated and disposed of
d. All of the above

The term missing in Risk = Hazard x ________ is?
a) Exposure
b) Cancer
c) Benign
d) Reactivity

The following term refers to the relative proportion of chemical components?
a) Togetherness
b) Stoichiometry
c) Metric
d) Colligative

The word missing on the left side of the figure above is?
a) Enhancing
b) Facilitating
c) Reducing
d) Awareness