Keywords:
Environmental chemistry.
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Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (291 pages)
Edition:
3rd ed.
ISBN:
9781119434894
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=6261086
DDC:
577/.14
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Simple Tool Skills -- 1.1 Unit Conversions -- 1.2 Estimating3 -- 1.3 Ideal Gas Law -- 1.4 Stoichiometry -- 1.5 Thermodynamic Considerations -- 1.5.1 Enthalpy -- 1.5.2 Entropy -- 1.5.3 Gibbs Free Energy -- 1.6 Measurement Issues -- 1.7 Problem Set -- Chapter 2 Mass Balance and Kinetics -- 2.1 Steady‐State Mass Balance -- 2.1.1 Flows, Stocks, and Residence Times -- 2.1.2 Adding Multiple Flows -- 2.1.3 Fluxes Are Not Flows! -- 2.2 Nonsteady‐State Mass Balance -- 2.2.1 Up‐Going Curve -- 2.2.2 Down‐Going Curve -- 2.2.3 Working with Real Data -- 2.3 Chemical Kinetics -- 2.3.1 First‐Order Reactions -- 2.3.2 Second‐Order Reactions -- 2.3.3 Michaelis-Menten Kinetics -- 2.4 Problem Set -- Chapter 3 Atmospheric Chemistry -- 3.1 Atmospheric Structure -- 3.2 Light and Photochemistry -- 3.3 Atmospheric Oxidants -- 3.4 Kinetics of Atmospheric Reactions -- 3.4.1 Pseudo‐Steady‐State Example -- 3.4.2 Arrhenius Equation -- 3.5 Stratospheric Ozone -- 3.5.1 Formation and Loss Mechanisms -- 3.5.2 Chapman Reaction Kinetics -- 3.6 Smog -- 3.7 Problem Set -- Chapter 4 Climate Change -- 4.1 Historical Perspective -- 4.2 Blackbody Radiation and Earth's Temperature -- 4.3 Absorption of Infrared Radiation -- 4.4 Greenhouse Effect -- 4.5 Earth's Radiative Balance -- 4.5.1 Greenhouse Gases -- 4.5.2 Albedo -- 4.5.3 Solar Constant -- 4.5.4 Combined Effects -- 4.6 Aerosols and Clouds -- 4.7 Radiative Forcing -- 4.8 Global Warming Potentials -- 4.9 Concluding Remarks -- 4.10 Problem Set -- Chapter 5 Carbon Dioxide Equilibria -- 5.1 pH and Equilibrium Constants -- 5.2 Pure Rain -- 5.3 Polluted Rain -- 5.4 Additional Acid Rain Chemistry and Implications -- 5.5 Surface Water -- 5.6 Ocean Acidification -- 5.7 Problem Set -- Chapter 6 Fates of Organic Compounds -- 6.1 Molecular Interactions -- 6.1.1 Electronegativity.
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6.1.2 Molecular Dipoles and Quadrupoles -- 6.1.3 Types of Weak Interactions -- 6.2 Vapor Pressure -- 6.3 Aqueous Solubility -- 6.3.1 Solubility of Pure Liquids and Solids -- 6.3.2 Solubility of Gases -- 6.4 Partitioning into Organic Phases -- 6.5 Partitioning into Biota -- 6.5.1 Bioconcentration -- 6.5.2 Bioaccumulation -- 6.5.3 Biomagnification -- 6.6 Adsorption -- 6.7 Water-Air Transfer -- 6.8 Reactive Fates of Organic Pollutants -- 6.9 Putting It All Together: Partitioning and Persistence -- 6.10 Problem Set -- Chapter 7 Toxic Stuff: Mercury, Lead, Pesticides, Polychlorinated Biphenyls, Dioxins, and Flame Retardants -- 7.1 Mercury -- 7.2 Lead -- 7.3 Pesticides -- 7.3.1 Pesticide History -- 7.3.2 Legacy Pesticides -- 7.3.3 Current Use Herbicides -- 7.3.4 Current Use Insecticides -- 7.3.5 Current Use Fumigants -- 7.3.6 Current Use Fungicides -- 7.4 Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) -- 7.4.1 PCB Nomenclature -- 7.4.2 PCB Production and Use -- 7.4.3 PCBs in the Hudson River -- 7.4.4 PCBs in Bloomington, Indiana -- 7.4.5 Yusho and Yu‐Cheng Diseases -- 7.4.6 PCB Conclusions -- 7.5 Polychlorinated Dibenzo‐p‐dioxins and Dibenzofurans -- 7.5.1 Dioxin Nomenclature -- 7.5.2 Chick Edema Disease -- 7.5.3 Agent Orange -- 7.5.4 Times Beach, Missouri -- 7.5.5 Seveso, Italy -- 7.5.6 Combustion Sources of Dioxins -- 7.5.7 US Dioxin Reassessment and Conclusions -- 7.6 Brominated and Other Flame Retardants -- 7.6.1 Polybrominated Biphenyls -- 7.6.2 Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers -- 7.6.3 Other Flame Retardants -- 7.7 Lessons Learned -- A Primer on Organic Structures and Names -- B Periodic Table of the Elements -- C Useful Physical and Chemical Constants -- D Answers to Problem Sets -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Index -- EULA.
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