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S: UWinnipeg – https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/chemistry/research-areas/environmental-chemistry.html (last access: 2 June 2024); NCERT – https://ncert.nic.in/textbook/pdf/kech207.pdf (last access: 2 June 2024).

N: 1.- environmental (adj): 1887, “environing, surrounding,” from environment + -al (1). Ecological sense by 1967. Related: Environmentally (1884).

– chemistry (n): c. 1600, “alchemy,” from chemist + –ry; also see chemical (adj.). The meaning “natural physical process” is from 1640s; the sense of “scientific study of the composition of material things and the changes they undergo” is by 1788. Chemistry in the European mind disengaged itself from alchemy in the mid-1600s; The Academy del Cimento was established in Italy in 1657, the Royal Society in London in 1660, and the Academy of Sciences in Paris in 1666.

2. Environmental chemistry is concerned with reactions in the environment and involves a study of the distribution and equilibria (i.e., the reactions, pathways, thermodynamics, and kinetics) between components of an ecosystem.

3. Inorganic chemical reactions and organic chemical reactions are certainly an important aspect of environmental chemistry but there is another aspect of chemistry that must not be ignored, and this is physical chemistry.

4. Environmental chemistry is the scientific study of the chemical and biochemical phenomena that occur in natural places. It should not be confused with green chemistry, which seeks to reduce potential pollution at its source.
Green chemistry, also called sustainable chemistry, is an area of chemistry and chemical engineering focused on the design of products and processes that minimize the use and generation of hazardous substances. Whereas environmental chemistry focuses on the effects of polluting chemicals on nature, green chemistry focuses on technological approaches to preventing pollution and reducing consumption of nonrenewable resources.

S: 1. Etymonline – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=environmental+chemistry (last access: 2 June 2024). 2&3. SDir – https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/environmental-chemistry (last access: 2 June 2024). 4. LibreTexts – https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/General_Chemistry/Map%3A_Chemistry_-_The_Central_Science_(Brown_et_al.)/18%3A_Chemistry_of_the_Environment (last access: 2 June 2024).

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