The Essential Guide to Environmental Chemistry

"This excellent and most reasonably priced guide is essential reading and a valuable reference source" (The ROSPA Occupational Safety Health Jnl. March 2002) The Essential Guide to Environmental Chemistry outlines the problems and issues facing the environmental chemist throughout the ecosystem. Presented as a 'pocket--atlas', this useful guide provides a concise overview of environmental pollution in air, water and soil as well as strategies for environmental analysis. * Unique format with text and illustrations on facing pages* Clear, full colour schematic diagrams making up 50% of the book* A 'must--have' for undergraduates/graduates in this field

ISBN 0471899542   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9780471899549 (What's this?)   Pages 268 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Volumes 1 Imprint John Wiley & Sons Ltd   Weight (grammes) 396 Format Paperback   Published in Chichester Publication date 30 Oct 2001   Height (mm) 205 Translator Haderlie, Brooks   Width (mm) 137 Library of Congress TD193.S381   Spine width (mm) 13 DEWEY 577.14   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		Preface
		Introduction
1		Material Cycles
1.1		Geochemical cycles
1.2		The carbon cycle
1.3		The nitrogen cycle
1.4		The sulphur cycle
1.5		The phosphorus cycle
1.6		Metal cycles
1.7		Special cycles
2		The Atmosphere
2.1		Physicochemical processes
2.2		Ecological photochemistry
2.3		Air pollution from combustion
2.4		Anthropogenous pollutants and their effects
2.5		Principles of air quality control
3		Water
3.1		The Earth's water cycle
3.2		Chemistry in bodies of water
3.3		Processes for the preparation of drinking water
3.4		Basic principles of waste water chemistry and sewage treatment
4		Soil
4.1		Basic principles of soil science
4.2		Physico- and biogeochemical processes
4.3		Metals and acid rain
4.4		Organic contaminants
4.5		Methods for soil remediation
4.6		Chemistry and technology in landfills
		More...

"... valuable addition to the range of available texts ..." (Times Higher Educational Supplement, 4 January 2002) "a useful source of reference" (World Surface Coatings Abstracts, January 2002) "This excellent and most reasonably priced guide is essential reading and a valuable reference source" (The ROSPA Occupational Safety Health Jnl. March 2002) "a useful primer" (Industry Environment, January--March 2002) "...The format of the book, with abundant high--quality colour illustrations excellent..." (Chemistry & Industry,5 August 2002) "...This guide will be a must for undergraduate, graduate students taking environmental sciences course." (Int Jnl of Environmental Analytical Chemistry, Vol. 82, No.10 2002) "!This nice little book is something you would like to posess at once, given the chance to look through it for a minute!" (Int Jnl of Environment and Pollution, Vol.19, No.1, 2003) "...a small compendium covering a truly wide array of topics with a didactically well written and presented range..." (Environmental Geology, Vol 44(876). 2003)

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