Some Other Chemicals from Natural Resources

3 Some Other Chemicals from Natural Resources 

Some of the potential uses of the fats and oils found in plants have been reviewed and some uses of carbohydrate-based polymers briefly discussed. Plants contain a whole variety of other chemicals including amino acids, terpenes, flavonoids, alkaloids, etc. When the potential for these naturally occurring materials are combined with the secondary products that can be obtained by fermentation or other microbial processes or by traditional chemical transformations, the array of chemicals that can readily be created from renewable resources is huge. In this section a few of the more interesting examples are considered. 

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When CFCs slowly rise in the atmosphere and reach the ozone layer, they are broken down into component molecular compounds and atoms by the UV rays of the sun. Some of these chemicals then react with ozone to break it down, thus reducing the amount of O3. Further, some chlorine (also from the oceans) and some other elements combine with the O and to form other chemicals. This also contributes to the reduction of ozone faster than natural processes can reform it. Ozone is a renewable resource. The issue is this can a balance be obtained between the destruction of ozone in the atmosphere, by both natural and man-made causes, and its natural regeneration ... 

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