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This compact textbook book on environmental chemistry written for chemists and engineers covers the most important aspects of the topic: sustainability of processes, proper waste disposal, ethical decision making and green chemistry. Along these lines, the authors discuss issues of earth, water, air, fossil and alternative energy, and environmental toxicity.

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Advanced Chemistry Needed for Environmental Chemistry
-Analytical Chemistry, Instrumental Methods
-Statistical Analysis
-Organic Chemistry Overview for Environmental Applications
-Equilibrium and Redox
-Green Chemistry

Earth
-Natural Pollutants
-Land Reclamation
-Brownfields
-Hydrophobic Materials, and Sorption
-Organic Materials
-PAHs
-Plastics and Plasticizers
-CFCs
-PCBs
-Pesticides
-Metals

Water
-Basics
-Desalination
-Reclamation and Remediation
-Chelation
-Ocean Acidification

Air
-Air Components
-Greenhouse Effect
-Ozone Layer, Ozone Holes
-Smog (NOx, SOx)
-Particulate Matter
-Carbon Sequestration

Energy
-Fossil
-Coal
-Oil
-Fracking
-Wood
-Nuclear
-Renewables
-Solar
-Wind
-Geothermal
-Hydro
-Batteries
-Climate Change

Toxicity
-Natural Pollutants
-Anthropogenic Pollutants
-Persistence
-Bioaccumulation/ Bio-augmentation
-Measurements

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A. Rihana-Abdallah, M. Benvenuto, E. Roberts-Kirchhoff, K. Lanigan, K. Evans, University of Detroit Mercy, MI, USA.

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