An undergraduate teaching exercise that explores contemporary issues in the manufacture of titanium dioxide on the industrial scale

Green Chemistry

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 25-32

  Grant, Steven ^a   Freer, Andrew A ^a   Winfield, John M ^a   Gray, Craig ^a   Overton, Tina L ^b   Lennon, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE; COKE; OXYGEN; REDUCING AGENT; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHEMISTRY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXERCISE; INDUSTRY; LAW; METHODOLOGY; STUDENT;

EID: 1442302404     PISSN: 14639262     EISSN: 14639270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b309878h     Document Type: Article

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