''The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.''
Environment studies deal with the sum of all social, economical, biological, physical and chemical interrelations with our surroundings. In this unit the focus will be on environment chemistry. Environmental chemistry deals with the study of the origin, transport, reactions, effects and dates of chemical species in the environment. Let us discuss some important aspects of environmental chemistry.
Environment Pollution
Environmental pollution is the effect of underirable changes in our surroundings that have harmful effects on plants ☘️, animals and human beings. A substance which causes pollution, is known vas pollutant. Pollutants can be solid, liquid or gaseous substances present in greater concentration than in natural abundance and are produced due to human activities or due to natural happenings.
Do you know, an average human being requires nearly 12-15 times more air than the food. So even small amounts of similar levels present in the food 🥑. Pollutiants can be degradable, like discarded vegetables which rapidly break down by natural processes. On the other hand, pollutants which are slowly desirable, remain in the environment in an unchanged from for many decades. For example, substances such as dischlorodi-decades. For example, substances such as dischlorodi- phenyltrochloronethane (DDT), plastic material, heavy metals, many chemicals, nuclear wastes etc., Once released into the environment are difficult to remove. These pollutants cannot be vdegraded by natural processes and are harmful to living organism. In the process of environmental pollution, pollutants originate from a source and get transport by air or water or are dumped into the soil by harmful beings.
