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From Reviews of the First Edition:

"This splendid, at times humorous, and reasonably priced littlebook has much to commend it to undergraduate chemists and to otherscience students." --J. G. Farmer, University of Edinburgh

"Complex environmental issues are presented in simple terms tohelp readers grasp the basics and solve relevant problems."--J. Albaiges, University of Barcelona

"The main strength of the book lies in its explanations of thecalculation of quantitative relationships. Each chapter includes15-20 problems that are carefully chosen from a didacticstandpoint, for which the reader can find solutions at the end."--D. Lenoir, Institute for Ecological Chemistry

"What drew me to the first edition was the style - the nononsense, down-to-earth explanations and the practical examplesthat litter the text. The dry humor expressed in the footnotes isgreat and reminds me of other classic texts." --T. Clough,Lincoln University

A practical approach to environmental chemistry

Providing readers with the fundamentals of environmentalchemistry and a toolbox for putting them into practice, Elements ofEnvironmental Chemistry, Second Edition is a concise, accessible,and hands-on volume designed for students and professionals workingin the chemical and environmental sciences.

Tutorial in style, this book fully incorporates real-worldproblems and extensive end-of-chapter problem sets to immerse thereader in the field. Chapters cover mass balance, chemicalkinetics, carbon dioxide equilibria, pesticide structures and muchmore. Extensively revised, updated, and expanded, this SecondEdition includes new chapters on atmospheric chemistry, climatechange, and polychlorinated biphenyls and dioxins, and brominatedflame retardants. In addition, new practice problems and a helpfultutorial on organic chemistry names and structures have been addedto improve both the scope and accessibility of the book.

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• 1 Simple Tool Skills(p. 1)
• 1.1 Unit Conversions(p. 1)
• 1.2 Estimating(p. 5)
• 1.3 Ideal Gas Law(p. 9)
• 1.4 Stoichiometry(p. 14)
• 1.5 Problem Set(p. 16)
• 2 Mass Balance and Kinetics(p. 23)
• 2.1 Steady-State Mass Balance(p. 24)
• 2.2 Non-Steady-State Mass Balance(p. 41)
• 2.3 Chemical Kinetics(p. 59)
• 2.4 Problem Set(p. 69)
• 3 Atmospheric Chemistry(p. 77)
• 3.1 Atmospheric Structure(p. 77)
• 3.2 Light and Photochemistry(p. 80)
• 3.3 Atmospheric Oxidants(p. 86)
• 3.4 Kinetics of Atmospheric Reactions(p. 88)
• 3.5 Stratospheric Ozone(p. 91)
• 3.6 Smog(p. 105)
• 3.7 Problem Set(p. 112)
• 4 Climate Change(p. 123)
• 4.1 Historical Perspective(p. 123)
• 4.2 Blackbody Radiation and Earth's Temperature(p. 125)
• 4.3 Absorption of Infrared Radiation(p. 130)
• 4.4 Greenhouse Effect(p. 132)
• 4.5 Earth's Radiative Balance(p. 134)
• 4.6 Aerosols and Clouds(p. 138)
• 4.7 Radiative Forcing(p. 141)
• 4.8 Global Warming Potentials(p. 142)
• 4.9 Concluding Remarks(p. 144)
• 4.10 Problem Set(p. 146)
• 5 Carbon Dioxide Equilibria(p. 153)
• 5.1 Pure Rain(p. 155)
• 5.2 Polluted Rain(p. 160)
• 5.3 Surface Water(p. 169)
• 5.4 Ocean Acidification(p. 174)
• 5.5 Problem Set(p. 181)
• 6 Pesticides, Mercury, and Lead(p. 189)
• 6.1 Pesticides(p. 191)
• 6.2 Mercury(p. 210)
• 6.3 Lead(p. 213)
• 6.4 Problem Set(p. 217)
• 7 Fates of Organic Compounds(p. 223)
• 7.1 Vapor Pressure(p. 225)
• 7.2 Water Solubility(p. 226)
• 7.3 Henry's Law Constant(p. 227)
• 7.4 Partition Coefficients(p. 228)
• 7.5 Lipophilicity(p. 229)
• 7.6 Bioaccumulation(p. 231)
• 7.7 Adsorption(p. 232)
• 7.8 Water-Air Transfer(p. 235)
• 7.9 Reactive Fates of Organics(p. 240)
• 7.10 Partitioning and Persistence(p. 242)
• 7.11 Problem Set(p. 247)
• 8 PCBs, Dioxins, and Flame Retardants(p. 259)
• 8.1 Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs)(p. 259)
• 8.2 Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxins and Dibenzofurans(p. 277)
• 8.3 Brominated Flame Retardants(p. 297)
• 8.4 Lessons Learned(p. 304)
• A Primer on Organic Structures and Names(p. 307)
• B Answers to the Problem Sets(p. 325)
• C Periodic Table of the Elements(p. 328)
• Index(p. 331)

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CHOICE Review

This book is a tutorial. The goal of Hites and Raff (both, Indiana Univ.) is to provide a series of worked and then posed problems that, if mastered, will give students a very firm grasp of the subjects covered. The book includes many well-posed problems that are actual problems in the real world. There are, however, a number of fanciful problems that might be useful for learning purposes but do not pertain to any worldly reality. For example, the reaction between nitrogen dioxide and oxygen to make nitric oxide and ozone, used as a problem on p. 148 in chapter 4, "Climate Change," is not known to atmospheric chemists, but the well-known reverse reaction does appear in a problem on p. 220, rather surprisingly in chapter 6, "Pesticides, Mercury, and Lead." This second edition (1st ed., CH, Nov'07, 45-1469) has been extensively revised and includes two additional chapters and new practice problems. A student who reads this book and works the problems will have some improved insight into environmental chemistry and will, if successful and hardworking, be a whiz at solving environmental and many other chemistry problems. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty. D. H. Stedman University of Denver

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Ronald A. Hites, PhD, is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. He is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been an editor of Environmental Science and Technology since 1990.
Jonathan D. Raff, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. He was the recipient of a National Science Foundation American Competitiveness in Chemistry Postdoctoral Fellowship and a United States Environmental Protection Agency STAR Graduate Fellowship.