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This reference takes a quantitative approach to environmental chemistry, employing a concise style. The second edition continues the book s original approach, while adding important topics such as climate change, atmospheric chemisty, the reactive fates of organic compounds and organic pollutants associated with oil spills, and the Stockholm "dirty dozen" (DDT, PCBs and dioxins). With new real-world problems added throughout, this updated text provides a short, quantitative resource ideal for an introductory course in environmental chemistry, as well as a quick primer on the subject for professionals.

Elements of Environmental Chemistry

1. Simple tool skills 11.1 Unit conversions 11.2 Estimating 51.3 Ideal gas law 91.4 Stoichiometry 141.5 Problem set 162. Mass balance and kinetics 232.1 Steady-state mass balance 232.2 Non-steady-state mass balance 422.3 Chemical kinetics 592.4 Problem set 703. Atmospheric chemistry 773.1 Atmospheric structure 773.2 Light and photochemistry 803.3 Atmospheric oxidants 863.4 Kinetics of atmospheric reactions 883.5 Stratospheric ozone 913.6 Smog 1053.7 Problem set 1124. Climate change and greenhouse effect 1234.1 Historical perspective 1234.2 Blackbody radiation and Earth's temperature 1254.3 Absorption of infrared radiation 1304.4 Greenhouse effect 1324.5 Earth's radiative balance 1344.6 Aerosols and clouds 1384.7 Radiative forcing 1414.8 Global warming potentials 1424.9 Concluding remarks 1444.10 Problem set 1465. Carbon dioxide equilibria 1535.1 Pure rain 1555.2 Polluted rain 1605.3 Surface water 1695.4 Ocean acidification 1745.5 Problem set 1816. Pesticides, mercury, and lead 1896.1 Pesticides 1916.2 Mercury 2106.3 Lead 2136.4 Problem set 2177. Fates or organic compounds 2237.1 Vapor pressure 2257.2 Water solubility 2267.3 Henry's Law constant 2267.4 Partition coefficients 2287.5 Lipophilicity 2287.6 Bioaccumulation 2317.7 Adsorption 2327.8 Water-air transfer 2347.9 Reactive fates of organic chemicals 2407.10 Partitioning and persistence 2427.11 Problem set 2478. PCBs, dioxins, and flame retardants 2578.1 Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) 2578.2 Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans 2758.3 Brominated flame retardants 2948.4 Lessons learned 301A. Primer on organic structures and names 305B. Answers to the problem set 323C. Periodic table of the elements 326Index 329