Environmental Chemistry: An Analytical Approach

Covers the essentials of environmental chemistry and focuses on measurements that can be made in a typical undergraduate laboratory. Provides a review of general chemistry nestled in the story of the Big Bang and the formation of the Earth. Includes a primer on measurement statistics and quantitative methods to equip students to make measurements in lab. Encapsulates environmental chemistry in three chapters on the atmosphere, lithosphere and hydrosphere. Describes many instruments and methods used to make common environmental measurements.

1 Origins: A Chemical History of the Earth from the Big Bang Until Now : 13.8 Billion Years of Review -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Big Bang -- 1.3 Solar Nebular Model: The Birth of Our Solar System -- 1.4 Life Emerges -- 1.5 Review Material -- 1.6 Important Terms -- 2 Measurements and Statistics -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Measurements -- 2.3 Primary and Secondary Standards -- 2.4 Sample and Population Distributions -- 2.5 Hypothesis Testing -- 2.6 Methods of Quantitation -- 2.7 Quantitative Equipment -- 2.8 Linear Regression Lite -- 2.9 Important Terms -- 3 The Atmosphere -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 An Overview of the Atmosphere -- 3.3 The Exosphere and Thermosphere -- 3.4 The Mesosphere -- 3.5 The Stratosphere -- 3.6 The Troposphere -- 3.7 Tropospheric Chemistry -- 3.8 Classical Smog -- 3.9 Acid Deposition -- 3.10 Ozone Destruction in the Stratosphere -- 3.11 The Ozone Hole -- 3.12 CFC Replacements -- 3.13 Climate Change -- 3.14 Measurements of Atmospheric Constituents -- 3.15 Important Terms -- 4 The Lithosphere -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Soil Formation -- 4.3 Metals and Complexation -- 4.4 Acid Deposition and Soil -- 4.5 Measurements -- 4.6 Important Terms -- 5 The Hydrosphere…