Soil and Water Contamination, 2nd Edition

✍ Scribed by Perk, Marcel van der

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 419
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION PART I AN INTRODUCTION TO SOIL AND WATER CONTAMINATION 1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1 Historical perspective 1.2 Environmental pollution 1.3 Environmental pollutants 1.3.1 Classification of pollutants 1.3.2 Background concentrations 1.3.3 Anthropogenic sources 1.4 Ecological impacts 1.5 Spatial and temporal variability and the concept of scale 1.6 Outline and rationale of this book Exercises2 BASIC ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Units of analysis 2.3 Activity 2.4 Background thermodynamics 2.5 Phases and phase transitions 2.5. Read more...

Abstract: PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION PART I AN INTRODUCTION TO SOIL AND WATER CONTAMINATION 1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1 Historical perspective 1.2 Environmental pollution 1.3 Environmental pollutants 1.3.1 Classification of pollutants 1.3.2 Background concentrations 1.3.3 Anthropogenic sources 1.4 Ecological impacts 1.5 Spatial and temporal variability and the concept of scale 1.6 Outline and rationale of this book Exercises2 BASIC ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Units of analysis 2.3 Activity 2.4 Background thermodynamics 2.5 Phases and phase transitions 2.5

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Front Cover
Contents
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
PART I: AN INTRODUCTION TO SOIL AND WATER CONTAMINATION
1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION
2. BASIC ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY
3. ENVIRONMENTAL COMPARTMENTS
PART II: SOURCES, ROLE, AND BEHAVIOUR OF SUBSTANCES IN SOIL AND WATER
4. SOLID PHASE CONSTITUENTS
5. MAJOR DISSOLVED PHASE CONSTITUENTS
6. NUTRIENTS
7. HEAVY METALS
8. RADIONUCLIDES
9. ORGANIC POLLUTANTS
PART III: TRANSPORT PROCESSES OF SUBSTANCES IN SOIL AND WATER
10. SYSTEMS AND MODELS
11. SUBSTANCE TRANSPORT
12. SEDIMENT TRANSPORT AND DEPOSITION 13. CHEMICAL TRANSFORMATION14. GAS EXCHANGE
15. MODEL CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION
PART IV: PATTERNS OF SUBSTANCES IN SOIL AND WATER
16. PATTERNS IN THE SOIL AND IN THE VADOSE ZONE
17. PATTERNS IN GROUNDWATER
18. PATTERNS IN SURFACE WATER
REFERENCES
APPENDIX I: THE PERIODIC TABLE OF ELEMENTS
APPENDIX 2: ANSWERS TO EXERCISES
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