Environmental Chemistry , textbook

The separate parts in the school chemistry textbooks are accompanied by student-exercises that mainly aim to train the students ability to reproduce the chemical knowledge presented. It takes quite a large number of chemistry lessons before a student will come to a point where the new chemical knowledge may be related to society and the everyday world. Only some students start to ask about nitrates and environmental problems while climbing the ladder. Mary never make such a coimection. According to the common ciuriculum philosophy that students first need to climb the ladder , it takes a long climb for students to see the relevance to societal themes in fact it is impossible within the (time) limits of the school chemistry curriculum. 

Undergraduate Textbook Environmental Chemistry, 3rd Edition Michael Cann... 

Atmospheric chemistry is a vast subject, and it was one of the first areas of environmental chemistry to be developed with some scientific rigor. Part of the motivation for this field was early problems with smog in Los Angeles and with stratospheric ozone depletion. This chapter presents only a quick survey of some of these areas for more details, one should consult the excellent textbooks by Seinfeld and Pandis1 or by Finlayson-Pitts and Pitts.2... 

While this book is in its first edition, it nonetheless has a lengthy pedigree, which derives from a book entitled Understanding Our Environment An Introduction to Environmental Chemistry and Pollution, which ran to three editions, the last of which was published in 1999. Understanding Our Environment has proved very popular as a student textbook, but changes in the way that the subject is taught had necessitated its splitting into two separate books. 

Developed by two well-known professors of oceanography. Chemical Oceanography and the Marine Carbon Cycle is an ideal textbook for upper-level undergraduates and graduates in oceanography, environmental chemistry, geochemistry and earth science. It is also a valuable reference for researchers in oceanography. 

Fig. 2.2 Periodic Table of the elements and their Z numbers. Note that the periodic pattern is complicated by the transition metals between columns II and III. La and the lanthanides are known as the rare earth elements (REE). The table has been constructed using conventional terminology and further details can be found in basic chemistry textbooks. Gill (1996) gives an accessible summary with a strong applied earth science stance. Elements in bold are those most abundant in environmental materials (see Fig. 2.3). After Gill (1996), with kind permission of Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Many textbooks have appeared in recent years aiming to fnlfill these reqnirements however, most of these deal mainly with examples from the developed conntries of North America and Europe. Taking into account the geographical bonndaries of environmental pollution, which is especially pronounced in Asia, and the specific peculiarities of pollution in developing countries, this conrse aims to close this gap by providing regionally oriented knowledge in basic and apphed environmental chemistry. 

Both Henry s constants will provide similar results, as long as the reader pays careful attention to how they are defined and how the appropriate equations are used. The reader should refer to standard chemistry textbooks for additional details. Excellent discussion on the use of Henry s constants in a range of environmental conditions is provided by Schwarzenbach et al. (1993). 

Textbooks/Reading Materials Environmental Chemistry, 4th edition, by Colin Baird and Miehael Cann. Freeman Company, 2008. 

Girard, James. Principles of Environmental Chemistry. 2d ed. Sudbury, Mass. Jones and Bartlett, 2010. This textbook covers the principles of environmental chemistry and is suitable for students who have a basic fluency of general chemistry. 

We are pleased to present this new edition of our textbook, Chemical Principles The Quest for Insight. It is designed for a rigorous course in introductory chemistry and to appeal to those of your students who will focus on engineering, the life sciences and medicine, or environmental sciences, as well as to chemistry majors. 

Waste prevention and environmental protection are major requirements in an overcrowded world of increasing demands. Synthetic chemistry continues to develop various techniques for obtaining better products with less environmental impact. One of the more promising approaches is solvent-free organic synthesis this book of Koichi Tanaka collects recent examples in this field in a concise way so that their performance and merits can be easily judged. This endeavor is very welcome, as most recent syntheses and educational textbooks largely neglect solvent-free techniques. 

Schwarzenbach, R. P., P. M. Gschwend, and D. M. Imboden, Environmental Organic Chemistry, Wiley, New York, 1993. A fine textbook on the chemistry of synthetic organic compounds in aqueous systems, with Chapter 11 serving as a useful introduction to transport versus reaction control of adsorption reactions. 

In a world where chemical pollutants pose a grave threat to the earth s natural resources. Environmental Soil and Water Chemistry offers students both an excellent textbook and a handy reference on the wide spectrum of environmental problems they will confront outside the classroom. 

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