Environmental Chemistry: An Analytical Approach

This textbook is designed for a course in environmental chemistry that includes laboratory exercises. The book covers the essentials of environmental chemistry, focuses on measurements that can be made in a typical undergraduate laboratory and contains sufficient material on statistical analysis. Also included is sufficient material to teach measurement statistics as well as covering topics not driven by environmental issues but by basic chemical concepts that are interesting to most students. It serves students and instructors who want a rigorous, chemical approach to environmental issues that covers the essentials and provides tested, quantitative laboratory exercises.

Topics Include: Statistics and Quantitation Methods; Atmosphere; Lithosphere; Hydrosphere; A Primer on Common Chemical Instrumentation; A Primer of Microsoft Excel; Presenting Results; Suggested Laboratory Experiments; and Chemical and Physical Properties