What is green chemistry you ask?

We've started a new unit on green chemistry and it's full of information that affects the world community and the UAE in particular. There are 12 main features to green chemistry which anyone can read about here, but they include important features such as prevents waste, increases energy efficiency, cuts down on chemical "accidents" like fires or explosions.  G10-05 put together some presentations to help one another understand the issues surrounding green chemistry which I think are notable and would like to highlight here.  These are the people we hope will be leading the way to the UAE realizing its goals of being environmentally proactive.

RAK's new pearl museum and associated vocabulary

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The National newspaper online edition had a very nice article on the new pearl museum in RAK, from which we extrapolated some very common, often used vocabulary as well as learned a lot about the pearling industry in the UAE.  The article entitled, New Pearl Museum Opens in RAK, can be found here and gives a brief description of RAK's historical relationship to the pearl industry that goes back to the 17th century when it was known as Julfar at that time. 

Students were assigned the task of producing class presentations using targeted vocabulary, and we hope to post some of them here on the blog.  In the meantime, here are the vocabulary words we are concentrating on this week that we read in the article above.  The quiz date for the vocab words will be announced here later this week, God willing.  If you have any questions, please ask or drop me a line at my email address.  See you in class.

revival         precious       myth     legend      precipitation    monarch  excursion   replica    merchant        artificial      render        obsolete     shimmer         
moisturizer   precaution   edible       insert             enthusiasm