Exploring ChemCom on the Internet
List of Starting Points for ChemCom on the
Internet
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Water and Toxic Waste
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- About
salt
- Salt,salt,salt and more salt
- American Water Works
Association
- ATSDR
- HazDat Database
- Conservation/Water-Related
Internet Resources
- This page lists a number of other websites that give
examples and discuss conserving water in the home,community,
on farms and in industry
- Ground Water
Institute
- http://web.frontier.net/SCAN/wip/hotlinks.html
- Major list of water related websites
- Oil Spill Public
Information Center
- many listings which describe the Exxon oil spill of 1989
and what effects that it has today; includes photos
- Sea
Shepherd Archive: Exxon Oil Spill Essay
- eyewitness description of Exxon oil spill
- 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
- This site contains links to many topics about fish. It
includes information about efforts to protect waterways and
save fish
- The
World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Wastewater
Engineering
- Water
Resources essay - American Public Works Association
(APWA)
Metal Resources and Recycling
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- NEVADA
BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY SPECIAL PUBLICATION P-6
- AGRA
Earth & Enviromental's Garbage Page
- Ask-A-Geologist
- Metals
- Aluminum
- Mill
Seat Landfill
- Periodic
Table of the Elements
- Renewed
interest in copper mining
- The Copper
Page
- The Home Page of
Global Recycling Network
- US
EPA Landfill Methane Outreach Program
- Web-Elements
Oil
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- 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
- a lot of software that allows you to explore random
events and fractals
- Behavior
of Pesticides in the Environment
- This pages describes very clearly how farming pesticides
reach other places in the environment
- Benzene
- This site provides information about a benzene: its
uses, its health efects and how it removed from polluted
water
- 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
- good information on various types of plastics and their
uses; some information in Italian
- Poly-Links - Plastics
and Polymers Web Server
- Polymers
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- what are polymers, what are they types of polymers ,
what are the properties, how are they recycled
- Renewable
Energy Technologies
- The homepage of Sandia Lab in N.M. where the govrnment
experiments with alternative energy sources
- Shell
Oil Company - About Oil
- Oil, oil, oil how its formed, how its removed from the
earth, how its refined, what products are made
- The
Chemistry of Carbon
- good 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
- What is dioxin----how dangerous is it------how is it
made-----where is it found found in the envirnoment?
Food
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Nuclear Chemistry
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Air Pollution
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- Air
Pollution
- site contains good graphics and texts that summarizes
the effect and sources of air pollution
- Chemistry
I
- Among other things this site contains a good list of
other sites on the topic of GLOBAL WARMING
- EcoNet's
Acid Rain Resources
- links to a variety of sights that have readings and
experiments about acid rain
- Global
Warming
- the page explains global woarmings, gives the causes,
tells the possible effects and gives suggstions on what
to do
- World Climate
Report
Other ChemCom Sites
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- ACSWeb from the
American Chemical Society
- Chem
page
- Chemistry
Teaching Resources on the Internet
- CRS
Reports from CNIE - Main Page
- Environmental reports on a wide range of topics.
Reports are often technical and require careful
reading
- Resources
for Chemistry
Second Law of
Thermodynamics
- An unusuallyi nteresting -- and oten amusing --
introduction to that fearsome Second Law of
Thermodynamics, here developed more clearly and simply
than you have ever seen it.
- Text
Version of Understanding our Planet Through
Chemistry
- The
World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Chemistry
- Welcome
to the MultiCHEM WWW Server
- World
Wide Web Curriculum Resources
Make inquiries and submit additional sites to: Jack
O'Donnell
Food Unit sites contributed by:Joanne
Jeskey
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