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Environmental contaminants : assessment and control /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vallero, Daniel A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Environmental risk assessment.
Environmental protection.
Online Access:Table of contents
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Scientific and engineering perspectives of environmental contaminants
  • Fundamentals to environmental physics
  • Applied contaminant physics: fluid properties
  • Environmental equilibrium, partitioning, and balances
  • Movement of contaminants in the environment
  • Fundamentals of environmental chemistry
  • Chemical reactions in the environment
  • Contaminant hazards
  • Contaminant exposure and risk calculations
  • Contaminant sampling and analysis
  • Intervention: managing the risks of environmental contamination
  • Environmental decisions and professionalism
  • Epilogue: Benzene metabolism revisited.