| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Simple Tool Skills -- 1.1 Unit Conversions -- 1.2 Estimating3 -- 1.3 Ideal Gas Law -- 1.4 Stoichiometry -- 1.5 Thermodynamic Considerations -- 1.5.1 Enthalpy -- 1.5.2 Entropy -- 1.5.3 Gibbs Free Energy -- 1.6 Measurement Issues -- 1.7 Problem Set -- Chapter 2 Mass Balance and Kinetics -- 2.1 Steady-State Mass Balance -- 2.1.1 Flows, Stocks, and Residence Times -- 2.1.2 Adding Multiple Flows -- 2.1.3 Fluxes Are Not Flows! -- 2.2 Nonsteady-State Mass Balance -- 2.2.1 Up-Going Curve -- 2.2.2 Down-Going Curve |
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2.2.3 Working with Real Data -- 2.3 Chemical Kinetics -- 2.3.1 First-Order Reactions -- 2.3.2 Second-Order Reactions -- 2.3.3 Michaelis-Menten Kinetics -- 2.4 Problem Set -- Chapter 3 Atmospheric Chemistry -- 3.1 Atmospheric Structure -- 3.2 Light and Photochemistry -- 3.3 Atmospheric Oxidants -- 3.4 Kinetics of Atmospheric Reactions -- 3.4.1 Pseudo-Steady-State Example -- 3.4.2 Arrhenius Equation -- 3.5 Stratospheric Ozone -- 3.5.1 Formation and Loss Mechanisms -- 3.5.2 Chapman Reaction Kinetics -- 3.6 Smog -- 3.7 Problem Set -- Chapter 4 Climate Change -- 4.1 Historical Perspective |
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4.2 Blackbody Radiation and Earth's Temperature -- 4.3 Absorption of Infrared Radiation -- 4.4 Greenhouse Effect -- 4.5 Earth's Radiative Balance -- 4.5.1 Greenhouse Gases -- 4.5.2 Albedo -- 4.5.3 Solar Constant -- 4.5.4 Combined Effects -- 4.6 Aerosols and Clouds -- 4.7 Radiative Forcing -- 4.8 Global Warming Potentials -- 4.9 Concluding Remarks -- 4.10 Problem Set -- Chapter 5 Carbon Dioxide Equilibria -- 5.1 pH and Equilibrium Constants -- 5.2 Pure Rain -- 5.3 Polluted Rain -- 5.4 Additional Acid Rain Chemistry and Implications -- 5.5 Surface Water -- 5.6 Ocean Acidification -- 5.7 Problem Set |
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Chapter 6 Fates of Organic Compounds -- 6.1 Molecular Interactions -- 6.1.1 Electronegativity -- 6.1.2 Molecular Dipoles and Quadrupoles -- 6.1.3 Types of Weak Interactions -- 6.2 Vapor Pressure -- 6.3 Aqueous Solubility -- 6.3.1 Solubility of Pure Liquids and Solids -- 6.3.2 Solubility of Gases -- 6.4 Partitioning into Organic Phases -- 6.5 Partitioning into Biota -- 6.5.1 Bioconcentration -- 6.5.2 Bioaccumulation -- 6.5.3 Biomagnification -- 6.6 Adsorption -- 6.7 Water-Air Transfer -- 6.8 Reactive Fates of Organic Pollutants -- 6.9 Putting It All Together: Partitioning and Persistence |
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6.10 Problem Set -- Chapter 7 Toxic Stuff: Mercury, Lead, Pesticides, Polychlorinated Biphenyls, Dioxins, and Flame Retardants -- 7.1 Mercury -- 7.2 Lead -- 7.3 Pesticides -- 7.3.1 Pesticide History -- 7.3.2 Legacy Pesticides -- 7.3.3 Current Use Herbicides -- 7.3.4 Current Use Insecticides -- 7.3.5 Current Use Fumigants -- 7.3.6 Current Use Fungicides -- 7.4 Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) -- 7.4.1 PCB Nomenclature -- 7.4.2 PCB Production and Use -- 7.4.3 PCBs in the Hudson River -- 7.4.4 PCBs in Bloomington, Indiana -- 7.4.5 Yusho and Yu-Cheng Diseases -- 7.4.6 PCB Conclusions |
| Summary |
"A practical approach to environmental chemistry, Elements of Environmental Chemistry, 3rd Edition provides readers with the fundamentals of environmental chemistry and a toolbox for putting them into practice. This is a concise, accessible, and hands-on volume designed for students and professionals working in the chemical and environmental sciences. The 3rd Edition has been completely revised and rearranged. The first chapter on tool skills has been expanded to include thermodynamic considerations and measurement issues. The former chapter on the partitioning of organic compounds has been expanded to cover the fates of organic compounds, with an emphasis on developing the reader's "chemical intuition" for predicting a chemical's fate based on structure. The material on lead, mercury, pesticides, PCBs, dioxins, and flame retardants has been expanded and combined into the last chapter and supplemented with more references to the literature. The problem sets have been extended and now include over 130 problems, some of which can be solved using Excel"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed December 14, 2020) |
| Subject |
Environmental chemistry.
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Environmental chemistry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hites, R. A., author.
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| LC no. |
2020015411 |
| ISBN |
9781119434894 |
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1119434890 |
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1119434882 |
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9781119434887 |
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