Chemistry For Your Life
Chemistry For Your Life
Melissa and Jam, Bleav
How do sunglasses protect us?
37 minutes Posted Feb 11, 2021 at 10:58 am.
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Wow sunglasses sure are cool. What's the coolest thing about them? Is it how cool they make us look and feel? Or is it the chemistry inside them? We'll let you decide, but we think you'll be surprised to find out how significant a role chemistry plays in the making of your shades.

 

References from this episode

  1. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.chas.8b23208
  2. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.macromol.8b02513
  3. https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/education/resources/highschool/chemmatters/issues/2018-2019/December2018/2%20Shades%20TG%20Reading%20Supports.docx
  4. https://www.safetyglassesusa.com/product-information/
  5. https://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i19/Periodic-graphics-chemistry-sunglasses.html
  6. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118909911.ch26
  7. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ma960808x
  8. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/1999/JM/a902864a#!divAbstract
 

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