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Serving as both a reference and a textbook, Handbook of Environmental Analysis is the first exhaustive treatment of the analysis of toxic pollutants in the environment. Areas addressed include:

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Environmental analysis books are either cookbooks for practitioners or textbooks focusing on fundamentals of chemistry; this dichotomy leads to an academic void for the environmental student who is neither practitioner nor chemist. Patnaik tries to bridge this void. His handbook provides "... a brief discussion of analytical techniques and methods of determination of chemical pollutants in aqueous, solid and air sampling." Part 1 is indeed a brief discussion of instruments and methods of chemical analysis, listing analytical method options and the strengths and limitations of each. Part 2 is helpful to environmental students in need of information on specific classes of substances and aggregate properties; part 3 continues to discuss "... analytical methodologies and physical properties..." of a few selected compounds and is equally helpful to the environmental student. Appendixes complement the text, but a more extensive bibliography would have been helpful to the research community. The strength of this handbook is its integration, in a comprehensive, one-volume work, of information available in scattered federal and professional publications. Graduate students through professionals. D. J. Moschandreas; Illinois Institute of Technology