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Summary
Summary
A reflection of the myriad changes in the field of environmental analysis and the emergence of many new classes of pollutants in recent years, the second edition of Handbook of Environmental Analysis: Chemical Pollutants in Air, Water, Soil, and Solid Wastescovers all aspects of environmental analysis. Completely revised and updated to include new analytical techniques as well as additional chemical structures and reactions, this second edition retains the features -- clarity of prose, pertinent examples, and authoritative coverage of a wide range of toxic pollutants -- that made the first edition a bestseller.
New and updated information in the Second Edition:
Chapters on emerging pollutants such as pharmaceuticals, household products, nonionic surfactants, steroids, hormones, flame-retardants, and plasticizers Chapters on oxyhalides, glyphosate herbicides, oil and grease, disinfection by-products, and haloacetic acids A chapter on radioactivity Updated NIOSH methods on air analysis Revised content on gas chromatography and mass spectrometry US EPA and Standard MethodsThe book provides information on an array of topics from instrumentations, analytical techniques, and sample preparations to statistical calculations, chemical structures, and equations. It includes information on many alternative analytical procedures, making this edition more informative and versatile than its predecessor. It presents the tools and techniques required to measure a wide range of toxic pollutants in our environment.
Author Notes
Pradyot Patnaik is currently Laboratory Director of Environmental and Analytical Chemistry Laboratory of Interstate Environmental Commission at State Island, New York and is associated with the research program of Center for Environmental Science of City University of New York at the College of Staten Island.
Reviews 1
Choice Review
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
