1. The purpose of this book is to serve both as a text in upper undergraduate and graduate courses and as a general reference on the subject of environmental chemistry. It is the author's hope that chemists, engineers, life scientists, and agriculturists who have had some exposure to organic...
  2. There are many definitions of environmental chemistry. To some, it is the chemistry of the Earth's natural processes in air, water, and soil. More commonly, as in this book, it is concerned principally with the chemical aspects of problems that human beings have created in the natural...