Environmental Analytical Chemistry - Softcover

Fifield, F.W.; Haines, Peter J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0751400521 ISBN 13: 9780751400526

Publisher: CRC Press, 1995

Synopsis

Linking analytical chemistry and environmental science, this book discusses the underlying principles of analytical measurements, their limitations, validity, and interpretations. It includes coverage of the underlying chemistry involved in analytical techniques. This is done in a way that enables students to grasp the strengths and weaknesses of a technique, together with its principles of operation, without becoming enmeshed in the chemical small print. Links to environmental uses are indicated in broad terms and them exemplified in more detail by accounts of specific and important environmental problems.

About this title

From the Back Cover

The first edition of this book established a niche as the only volume with a wide ranging review of analytical chemistry having a focus specific to environmental science.

This new edition has been thoroughly revised to take full account of the rapid changes and development in the field over the past five years. Separation science, atomic spectroscopy and speciation determinations are areas in which significant developments have been made, and these are reflected in the new edition. The importance of the assessment of the effects of pollutants on real systems has been recognised by the restructuring of the chapter on biological testing and incorporation of a new one on environmental toxicology. Self-assessment questions have been added.

Both analytical chemistry and environmental science have an extensive literature at varying levels of sophistication. However, there have been few attempts to link the two. This book sets out the background to analytical chemistry and covers the principles of its most important techniques. This is done in a way that enables a user to grasp the strengths and weaknesses of a technique, together with its principles of operation, without becoming enmeshed in the chemical small print. Links to environmental uses are indicated in broad terms and then exemplified in more detail by accounts of specific and important environmental problems.

Written for students of chemistry, environmental science and related disciplines, the book is also an essential reference source for those who use environmental information and need to be aware of the factors affecting its quality and reliability.

About the Author

F.W. Fifield is a former Principal Lecturer in Analytical Chemistry in the School of Applied Chemistry at Kingston University, UK, and now works in association with The Centre for Earth and Environmental Science Research at Kingston. His current research interests concern mainly the environmental problems of the former Soviet Union including Belarus and especially the Irkutsk/Baikal Region of Eastern Siberia.

P.J. Haines taught physical and analytical chemistry at Kingston University for thirty years. His research interests include the uses of thermal analysis and spectroscopic methods especially in the area of fire- retardant polymers. He now works as an analytical chemistry consultant.

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0751400521
• ISBN 13: 9780751400526
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 440