Metal Pollution in the Aquatic Environment

✍ Scribed by Professor Dr. Ulrich Förstner, Dr. Gottfried T. W. Wittmann (auth.)

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1979
Tongue: English
Leaves: 501
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Introduction....Pages 1-2
Toxic Metals....Pages 3-70
Metal Concentrations in River, Lake, and Ocean Waters....Pages 71-109
Metal Pollution Assessment from Sediment Analysis....Pages 110-196
Metal Transfer Between Solid and Aqueous Phases....Pages 197-270
Heavy Metals in Aquatic Organisms....Pages 271-323
Trace Metals in Water Purification Processes....Pages 324-359
Concluding Remarks....Pages 360-366
Back Matter....Pages 367-488

✦ Subjects

Life Sciences, general; Earth Sciences, general; Biomedicine general

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