Environmental Particles

First published in 1992, Environmental Particles describes properties and roles of environmental particles in air, water, sediment, and soil. This book will be an excellent reference source for environmental chemists and physicists, oceanographers, analytical chemists, scientists involved in environmental protection, and students.

First published in 1992, Environmental Particles describes properties, roles, and methods for the characterization of environmental particles in air, water, sediment, and soil. This book emphasizes modern methods for sampling, instrumental characterization methods, and physical/chemical principles for describing the properties and roles of particles in the environment (particularly their influence on the transport of toxic compounds). It will be an excellent reference source for environmental chemists and physicists, limnologists, oceanographers, air and soil scientists, analytical chemists, environmental engineers, scientists involved in environmental protection, and students.

Autorentext
Jacques Buffle, Herman P. van Leeuwen

Klappentext

First published in 1992, Environmental Particles describes properties and roles of environmental particles in air, water, sediment, and soil. This book will be an excellent reference source for environmental chemists and physicists, oceanographers, analytical chemists, scientists involved in environmental protection, and students.

Inhalt

Part I. Sampling and Characterization of Atmospheric Particles. 1. Source Apportionment of Atmospheric Particles. 2. Acid-Base Equilibria of Aerosols and Gases in the Atmosphere. 3. Characterization of Individual Environmental Particles by Beam Techniques. 4. Characterization of the Cr(VI)/Cr(III) Ratio in Aerosols. Part II. Sampling and Characterization of Particles of Aquatic Systems. 5. The Use of Filtration and Ultrafiltration for Size Fractionation of Aquatic Particles, Colloids, and Macromolecules. 6. Evaluation of Electron Microscopic Techniques for the Description of Aquatic Colloids. 7. Characterization of Particle Surface Charge. 8. Iron Particles in Freshwater. 9. Characterization of Oceanic Biogenic Particles. Part III. Reaction and Transport of Particles in Aquatic Systems. 10. The Role of Particles and Colloids in the Transport of Radionuclides and Trace Metals in the Oceans. 11. Sorption of Trace Elements on Natural Particles on Oxic Environments. 12. Ion Binding by Natural Heterogenous Particles. 13. Dynamic Aspects of Metal Speciation in Aquatic Colloidal Systems. Index.