Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Dedication, Page v
Foreword, Pages vii-ix, Morris Schnitzer
Preface, Pages xi-xii, Elham A. Ghabbour, Geoffrey Davies
WHAT IS HUMIC ACID? A PERSPECTIVE OF THE PAST FORTY YEARS, Pages 1-8, Cornelius Steelink
ABIOTIC CATALYTIC HUMIFICATION OF ORGANIC MATTER IN OLIVE OIL MILL WASTEWATERS, Pages 9-17, N. Senesi, G. Brunetti, E. Loffredo, T.M. Miano
USE OF 13C NMR AND FTIR FOR ELUCIDATION OF DEGRADATION PATHWAYS DURING SENESCENCE AND LITTER DECOMPOSITION OF ASPEN LEAVES, Pages 19-30, Robert L. Wershaw, Jerry A. Leenheer, Kay R. Kennedy
A BIOGEOPOLYMERIC VIEW OF HUMIC SUBSTANCES WITH APPLICATION TO PARAMAGNETIC METAL EFFECTS ON 13C NMR, Pages 31-48, Robert L. Cook, Cooper H. Langford
EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT SOLID-STATE 13C NMR TECHNIQUES FOR CHARACTERIZING HUMIC ACIDS, Pages 49-61, Baoshan Xing, Jingdong Mao, Wei-Guo Hu, Klaus Schmidt-Rohr, Geoffrey Davies, Elham A. Ghabbour
NMR EVIDENCE FOR CRYSTALLINE DOMAINS IN HUMIC SUBSTANCES, Pages 63-68, Wei-Guo Hu, Jingdong Mao, Klaus Schmidt-Rohr, Baoshan Xing
CHANGES OF COLLOIDAL STATE IN AQUEOUS SYSTEMS OF HUMIC ACIDS, Pages 69-78, E. TombΓ‘cz, J.A. Rice
HUMIC ACID PSEUDOMICELLES IN DILUTE AQUEOUS SOLUTION: FLUORESCENCE AND SURFACE TENSION MEASUREMENTS, Pages 79-85, R. von Wandruszka, R.R. Engebretson, L.M. Yates III
ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY OF pH, IONIC STRENGTH AND CADMIUM EFFECTS ON SURFACE FEATURES OF HUMIC ACID, Pages 87-99, C. Liu, P.M. Huang
MOLECULAR SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF HUMIC SUBSTANCES: A COMPARISON BETWEEN SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY AND CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS, Pages 101-106, Maria De Nobili, Gilberto Bragato, Antonella Mori
CHARACTERIZATION OF HUMIC ACIDS BY CAPILLARY ZONE ELECTROPHORESIS AND MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION/IONIZATION TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY, Pages 107-119, L. PokornΓ‘, D. GajdoΕ‘ovΓ‘, J. Havel
MALDI-TOF-MS ANALYSIS OF HUMIC SUBSTANCES β A NEW APPROACH TO OBTAIN ADDITIONAL STRUCTURAL INFORMATION?, Pages 121-128, G. Haberhauer, W. Bednar, M.H. Gerzabek, E. Rosenberg
LASER SPECTROSCOPY OF HUMIC SUBSTANCES, Pages 129-145, C. Illenseer, H.-G. LΓΆhmannsrΓΆben, Th. Skrivanek, U. Zimmermann
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF UV ABSORPTION AND FLUORESCENCE SPECTRA OF SUWANNEE RIVER NOM FRACTIONS, Pages 147-156, Gregory V. Korshin, Jean-Philippe CrouΓ©, Chi-Wang Li, Mark M. Benjamin
FLUORESCENCE BEHAVIOUR OF MOLECULAR SIZE FRACTIONS OF SUWANNEE RIVER WATER. THE EFFECT OF PHOTO-OXIDATION, Pages 157-167, T.M. Miano, J.J. Alberts
CHANGES IN CHEMICAL COMPOSITION, FTIR AND FLUORESCENCE SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS OF HUMIC ACIDS IN PEAT PROFILES, Pages 169-177, M. TakΓ‘cs, J.J. Alberts
CHROMATOGRAPHIC SEPARATION OF FLUORESCENT SUBSTANCES FROM HUMIC ACIDS, Pages 179-189, M. Aoyama
A STUDY OF NON-UNIFORMITY OF METAL-BINDING SITES IN HUMIC SUBSTANCES BY X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY, Pages 191-201, Anatoly I. Frenkel, Gregory V. Korshin
APPLICATION OF HIGH PERFORMANCE SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY (HPSEC) WITH DETECTION BY INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA-MASS SPECTROMETRY (ICP-MS) FOR THE STUDY OF METAL COMPLEXATION PROPERTIES OF SOIL DERIVED HUMIC ACID MOLECULAR FRACTIONS, Pages 203-221, Sandeep A. Bhandari, Dula Amarasiriwardena, Baoshan Xing
INTERACTION OF ORGANIC CHEMICALS (PAH, PCB, TRIAZINES, NITROAROMATICS AND ORGANOTIN COMPOUNDS) WITH DISSOLVED HUMIC ORGANIC MATTER, Pages 223-240, Juergen Poerschmann, Frank-Dieter Kopinke, Joerg Plugge, Anett Georgi
HUMASORB-CSβ’: A HUMIC ACID-BASED ADSORBENT TO REMOVE ORGANIC AND INORGANIC CONTAMINANTS, Pages 241-254, H.G. Sanjay, A.K. Fataftah, D.S. Walia, K.C. Srivastava
STIMULATION OF PLANT GROWTH BY HUMIC SUBSTANCES: EFFECTS ON IRON AVAILABILITY, Pages 255-263, Y. Chen, C.E. Clapp, H. Magen, V.W. Cline
USING ACTIVATED HUMIC ACIDS IN THE DETOXIFICATION OF SOILS CONTAMINATED WITH POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS. TESTS CONDUCTED IN THE CITY OF SERPUKHOV, RUSSIA, Pages 265-269, Alexander Shulgin, Alexander Shapovalov, Yuriy Putsykin, Cicilia Bobovnikov, Galena Pleskachevski, Andrew J. Eckles III
Subject Index, Pages 271-286