Informal chemical education significance

The treatment of chemistry within the formal educational system is addressed in the other chapters in this section. Until the solutions proposed there are widely implemented, the provision of opportunities for informal chemical education will be the main way of changing negative attitudes. Such attempts are necessary because of the major significance of chemical ideas for personal, social, and cultural life we take up the issue of justification at the end of this chapter. 

Our greater knowledge about potable water consumption habits will be invaluable in the future to assess the significance of chemical contaminants in water. Not only will the information permit proper guidelines to be established, but the survey also indicated certain areas where public education has to be increased to encourage consumers to modify their water-use habits. 

An important component of responding to a significant chemical incident is to prepare and provide a Public Health Statement/Patient Information Sheet to the healthcare facility. The healthcare provider can then disseminate this objective toxicological information to all treated individuals and the community at large to both educate and allay fears within the local population. 

There are many possible chemical reactions among cryolite, sodium fluoride, alumina, silica, and mullite [181, 188-193]. Classical considerations on the corrosion resistance of refractories have limited significance for the problem of corrosion resistance to cryolite and are good from an educational and informational point of view due to the extra low viscosity of cryolite melt and unique corrosion ability of... 

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