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Hites, R. A.

Elements of environmental chemistry / Ronald A. Hites. - Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, 2007 - xiii, 204 p. ill. ; 21 cm.

Includes index.

1. Simple tool skills. Unit conversions ;
2. Estimating ;
3. Ideal gas law ;
4. Stoichiometry ;
5. Problem set ;
6. Mass balance. Steady-state mass balance. Flows, stocks, and residence times ;
7. Adding multiple flows ;
8. Fluxes are not flows! ;
9. Non-steady-state mass balance. Up-going curve ;
10. Down-going curve ;
11. Working with real data ;
12. Second-order reactions ;
13. Problem set ;
14. Atmospheric chemistry. Light ;
15. Atmospheric structure ;
16. Ozone. Introduction to ozone ;
17. Ozone catalytic cycles ;
18. Chemical kinetics. Pseudo-steady-state example ;
19. Arrhenius equation ;
20. Chapman reaction kinetics ;
21. Smog ;
22. Greenhouse effect ;
23. Problem set ;
24. Co2 equilibria. Pure rain ;
25. Polluted rain ;
26. Surface water ;
27. Problem set ;
28. Fates of organic compounds.
29. Vapor pressure ;
30. Water solubility ;
31. Henry's law constant ;
32. Partition coefficients ;
33. Lipophilicity ;
34. Fish partition coefficients ;
35. Adsorption ;
36. Water-air transfer ;
37. Problem set ;
38. Toxic environmental compounds. Peticides. Diphenylmethane analogs ;
39. Hexachlorocyclohexanes ;
40. Hexachlorocyclopentadienes ;
41. Phosphorous-containing insecticides ;
42. Carbamates ;
43. Natural product simulants ;
44. Phenoxyacetic acids ;
45. Nitroanilines ;
46. Triazines ; Acetanilides ;
47. Fungicides ;
48. Mercury ;
49. Lead ;
50. Problem set ;



ISBN: 9780471998150 (cloth) 047199815X (cloth)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Environmental chemistry.

Dewey Class. No.: 577/.14 / H675