Description
Colin Baird and Michael Cann's acclaimed Environmental Chemistry helps students explore the chemical processes and properties underlying environmental issues they hear about every day - climate change, pollution, biofuels, sustainability and more. Like no other textbook of its kind, it makes accessible the many ways chemists are tackling fundamental environmental problems – including those for which the chemical industry itself is a source.
With up-to-date, balanced, and authoritative coverage of soil, water, and air chemistry, the Fifth Edition offers:
Expanded coverage of energy production (especially biofuels), the generation and disposal of CO2, and innovative ways to combat climate change.
Increased international coverage to give all students a better perspective on environmental problems and solutions around the world – for example, increased coverage of gaseous and particulate air pollution and CO2 emissions and air quality standards in both developed and developing countries.
Updated Green Chemistry cases, including new cases on bio-based toners, recycling carbon dioxide, VOCs in latex paints, bio-based liquid fuels and chemicals, and spinetoram-an improved green pesticide.
An Activity in most chapters - Web- or library-based mini-projects to be completed either by an individual student or as a group project.
More schematic diagrams have been added to promote student comprehension of the more complicated chemistry and appeal to a variety of learning styles.
Marginal notes – to supplement the main text with additional interesting material, and to indicate which Review Questions are relevant to the material at hand.
Table of Contents PART I: ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND AIR POLLUTION
1. Stratospheric Chemistry: the Ozone Layer
2. The Ozone Holes
3. The Chemistry of Ground-Level Air Pollution
4. The Environmental and Health Consequences of Polluted Air - Outdoors and Indoors
PART II: ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
5. The Greenhouse Effect
6. Energy Use, Fossil Fuels, CO2 Emissions, and Global Climate Change
7. Biofuels and Other Alternative Fuels
8. Renewable Energy Technologies: Hydroelectric, Wind, Solar, Geothermal, and Marine Energy and Their Storage
9. Radioactivity, Radon, and Nuclear Energy
PART III: WATER CHEMISTRY AND WATER POLLUTION
10. The Chemistry of Natural Waters
11. The Pollution and Purification of Water
12. Toxic Heavy Metals
PART IV: TOXIC ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
13. Pesticides
14. Dioxins, Furans and PCBs
15. Other toxic Organic Compounds of Environmental Concern
PART V: ENVIRONMENT AND THE SOLID STATE
16. Wastes, Soils, and Sediments
PART VI: ADVANCED ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY
17. The Detailed Free-Radical Chemistry of the Atmosphere
Appendix A: Oxidation Numbers and Redox Equation Balancing Reviewed
Answers to Selected Odd-Numbered Problems
Index.