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Summary
Summary
Provides comprehensive coverage of the new and emerging discipline of atmospheric chemistry. Starting with the fundamentals of kinetics and photochemistry, it shows how the experimental techniques in these areas are applied to the study and control of chemical reactions in the troposphere. Gives detailed analysis of such major societal issues as smog, acid rain and volatile toxic organics, and treats the seven criteria pollutants considered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to be hazardous, as well as a variety of trace non-criteria pollutants, such as those cited in the Clean Air Act of 1977. Also included is a comprehensive bibliography and over 340 illustrations.
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Choice Review
A fine book. The authors, well-known researchers and authorities on photochemistry and atmospheric chemistry, confine their scope to the terrestrial troposphere, to the fundamental physics, kinetics, and photochemistry needed to understand it, and to techniques for measuring kinetics and concentrations of the minor species that play such a major role in the chemistry of both pristine and polluted atmospheres. Terrestrial stratospheric chemistry is left to a final chapter but, given the high quality of this book, one may hope for companion volumes on this and on extraterrestrial atmospheres. The illustrations, the organization, and above all the writing, are clear. The index is complete, and each chapter is followed by an extensive bibliography that extends to mid-1985. The organization is logical and the level is appropriate for any chemist from the advanced undergraduate to the novice professional. Most discussions begin from fundamentals, including a chapter on the basic principles of molecular spectroscopy, spectrometers, and photochemistry that makes this book in every way a worthy descendant of J.C. Calvert and I.N. Pitts' lucid classic, Photochemistry (CH, Oct '66). Very warmly recommended for any library serving chemists.-T.R. Blackburn, St. Andrews Presbyterian College
