Elements of environmental chemistry / Ronald A. Hites.

Includes index.

Simple tool skills -- Unit conversions -- Estimating -- Ideal gas law -- Stoichiometry -- Problem set -- Mass balance -- Steady-state mass balance -- Flows, stocks, and residence times -- Adding multiple flows -- Fluxes are not flows! -- Non-steady-state mass balance -- Up-going curve -- Down-going curve -- Working with real data -- Second order reactions -- Problem set -- Atmospheric chemistry -- Light -- Atmospheric structure -- Ozone -- Introduction to ozone -- The no/no2 pathway -- The oh/ooh pathway -- The cl/ocl pathway -- Chemical kinetics -- Pseudo steady state example -- Arrhenius equation -- Chapman reaction kinetics -- Smog -- Greenhouse effect -- Problem set -- Co2 equilibria -- Pure rain -- Polluted rain -- Surface water -- 4. problem set -- Fates of organic compounds -- Vapor pressure -- Water solubility -- Henry's law constant -- Partition coefficients -- Lipophilicity -- Fish partition coefficients -- Adsorption -- Water-air transfer -- Problem set -- Toxic environmental compounds -- Peticides -- Dphenylmethane analogues -- Hexachlorocyclohexanes -- Hexachlorocyclopentadienes -- Phosphorous containing insecticides -- Phosphates -- Phsphorothioates -- Phosphorodithioates -- Carbamates -- Natural product simulants -- Phenoxyacetic acids -- Nitroanilines -- Triazines -- Acetanilides -- Fungicides -- Mercury -- Lead -- Problem set -- Answers to the problem sets.