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Sustainable Chemistry

Chemia zrównoważonego rozwoju

Bachelor's
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Sustainable Chemistry at UJ

Language: PolishStudies in Polish
Subject area: physical science, environment
Kind of studies: full-time studies
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Test: check whether Sustainable Development Chemistry is the right major for you!

Chemia zrównoważonego rozwoju test

Find Out if Sustainable Development Chemistry Is the Right Major for You!

1. Are you passionate about reducing environmental impact through chemical innovation?

2. Do you enjoy learning about green chemistry principles like waste minimization, benign solvents, and energy efficiency?

3. Are you interested in lifecycle analysis and evaluating the full environmental footprint of products?

4. Do you enjoy hands-on lab work developing or testing sustainable materials, catalysts, or processes?

5. Are you comfortable integrating knowledge from chemistry, environmental science, and policy to solve complex problems?

6. Do you care about ethical decision-making in deploying chemical solutions that affect people and ecosystems?

7. Do you enjoy analyzing data to assess sustainability metrics and improve processes?

8. Are you interested in developing renewable feedstocks or biodegradable products?

9. Do you like working collaboratively with scientists, engineers, and stakeholders to implement sustainable solutions?

10. Are you motivated by long-term environmental outcomes rather than short-term gains?

Definitions and quotes

Chemistry
Chemistry is the scientific discipline involved with compounds composed of atoms, i.e. elements, and molecules, i.e. combinations of atoms: their composition, structure, properties, behavior and the changes they undergo during a reaction with other compounds. Chemistry addresses topics such as how atoms and molecules interact via chemical bonds to form new chemical compounds. There are four types of chemical bonds: covalent bonds, in which compounds share one or more electron(s); ionic bonds, in which a compound donates one or more electrons to another compound to produce ions (cations and anions); hydrogen bonds; and Van der Waals force bonds.
Chemistry
Every chemical substance, whether natural or artificial, falls into one of two major categories, according to the spatial characteristic of its form. The distinction is between those substances that have a plane of symmetry and those that do not. The former belong to the mineral, the latter to the living world.
Louis Pasteur, Vallery-Radot (ed.), Oeuvres de Pasteur (1922-1939), Vol. I, 331. Quoted in Patrice Debré, Louis Pasteur, trans. Elborg Forster (1994), 261.
Chemistry
I was an atheist, finding no reason to postulate the existence of any truths outside of mathematics, physics and chemistry. But then I went to medical school, and encountered life and death issues at the bedsides of my patients. Challenged by one of those patients, who asked "What do you believe, doctor?", I began searching for answers.
Francis Collins, a geneticist who led the U.S. government’s effort to decipher the human genome (DNA). cnn.com
Chemistry
We can no more have exact religious thinking without theology, than exact mensuration and astronomy without mathematics, or exact iron-making without chemistry,
John Hall (Presbyterian pastor) (1895) Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers p. 580.

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