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Baird, Colin

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New York : W H Freeman, 1995

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9780716724049

Subject Term:

Environmental chemistry

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Library	Item Barcode	Call Number	Material Type	Item Category 1	Status
Searching... PSZ JB	30000003919259	TD192 B34 1995	Open Access Book	Book	Searching... Unknown

Colin Baird's "Environmental Chemistry" presents the most balanced coverage of the environmental chemistry of natural systems on the market, and is the only text available to successfully target an audience with only general chemistry as a pre-requisite. With the addition of new co-author, Michael Cann from the University of Scranton, the new "Third Edition" becomes the first in the field to incorporate green chemistry into every chapter.

Preface: Introduction to Green Chemistry	p. xvii
Part I Air and Energy	p. 1
Chapter 1 Stratospheric Chemistry: The Ozone Layer	p. 3
Introduction	p. 3
The Physics and Chemistry of the Ozone Layer	p. 9
The Steady State in Atmospheric Reactions	p. 21
Catalytic Processes of Ozone Destruction	p. 27
The Ozone Hole and Other Sites of Ozone Depletion	p. 36
The Chemicals That Cause Ozone Destruction	p. 48
Chapter 2 Ground-Level Air Pollution - Outdoors and Indoors	p. 66
Introduction	p. 66
Urban Ozone: The Photochemical Smog Process	p. 72
Acid Rain	p. 93
The Ecological Effects of Acid Rain and of Photochemical Smog	p. 99
Particulates in Air Pollution	p. 106
Air Quality Indices and Size Characteristics for Particulate Matter	p. 111
The Health Effects of Outdoor Air Pollutants	p. 114
Indoor Air Pollution	p. 127
Chapter 3 The Detailed Chemistry of the Atmosphere	p. 139
Tropospheric Chemistry	p. 141
Systematics of Stratospheric Chemistry	p. 161
Chapter 4 The Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming	p. 166
The Mechanism of the Greenhouse Effect	p. 167
Molecular Vibrations: Energy Absorption by Greenhouse Gases	p. 171
The Major Greenhouse Gases	p. 173
Atmospheric Residence Time	p. 187
Other Greenhouse Gases	p. 191
The Climate-Modifying Effects of Aerosols	p. 202
Global Warming to Date	p. 206
Chapter 5 Climate Change in the Future: Predictions, Consequences, and Controls	p. 220
The Potential Consequences of Global Warming	p. 220
Energy Reserves and Usage	p. 226
CO[subscript 2] Emission Scenarios and Agreements	p. 236
Minimizing Future Emissions of Greenhouse Gases	p. 241
Chapter 6 Renewable Energy, Alternative Fuels, and the Hydrogen Economy	p. 252
Renewable Energy	p. 253
Alternative Fuels	p. 267
Hydrogen-Fuel of the Future?	p. 283
Environmental Instrumental Analysis 1 Instrumental Determination of NO[subscript x] by Chemiluminescence	p. 299
Environmental Instrumental Analysis 2 Instrumental Determination of Atmospheric Methane	p. 302
Part II Toxic Organic Chemicals	p. 305
Chapter 7 Pesticides	p. 307
Background	p. 307
DDT	p. 313
The Accumulation of Organochlorines in Biological Systems	p. 318
Other Organochlorine Insecticides	p. 323
Principles of Toxicology	p. 327
The Distribution of Environmental Pollutants	p. 334
Organophosphate and Carbamate Insecticides	p. 337
Natural and Green Insecticides, and Integrated Pest Management	p. 342
Herbicides	p. 346
Summary	p. 352
Chapter 8 Nonpesticide Toxic Organic Compounds of Environmental Concern	p. 358
Dioxins	p. 359
PCBs	p. 365
Other Sources of Dioxins and Furans	p. 376
The Health Effects of Dioxins, Furans, and PCBs	p. 381
Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs)	p. 393
Other Toxic Organics of Environmental Concern	p. 402
Environmental Estrogens	p. 405
The Long-Range Transport of Atmospheric Pollutants	p. 413
Environmental Instrumental Analysis 3 Electron Capture Detection of Pesticides	p. 420
Part III Water	p. 423
Chapter 9 The Chemistry of Natural Waters	p. 425
Oxidation-Reduction Chemistry in Natural Waters	p. 426
Acid-Base Chemistry in Natural Waters: The Carbonate System	p. 442
Ion Concentrations in Natural Waters and Drinking Water	p. 449
Chapter 10 The Pollution and Purification of Water	p. 463
Water Disinfection	p. 463
Groundwater: Its Supply, Chemical Contamination, and Remediation	p. 478
The Chemical Contamination and Treatment of Wastewater and Sewage	p. 494
Modern Wastewater and Air Purification Techniques	p. 507
Chapter 11 Toxic Heavy Metals	p. 516
Introduction	p. 516
Mercury	p. 519
Lead	p. 530
Cadmium	p. 542
Arsenic	p. 545
Chromium	p. 554
Environmental Instrumental Analysis 4 Inductively Coupled Plasma Determination of Lead	p. 562
Environmental Instrumental Analysis 5 Ion Chromatography of Environmentally Significant Anions	p. 565
Part IV Some Other Environmental Concerns	p. 569
Chapter 12 Hazardous and Municipal Wastes, and the Contamination of Soils and Sediments	p. 571
Domestic and Commercial Garbage: Its Disposal and Minimization	p. 571
The Recycling of Household and Commercial Waste	p. 581
Soils and Sediments	p. 591
Hazardous Wastes	p. 614
Chapter 13 Radioactivity, Radon, and Nuclear Energy	p. 626
Radioactivity and Radon Gas	p. 626
Nuclear Energy	p. 637
Appendix Background Organic Chemistry	p. 1
Answers to Selected Odd-Numbered Problems	p. 1
Index	p. 1

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