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Transport and Fate of Chemicals in the Environment Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology /

What happens when a chemical is released into the environment? It diffuses, disperses, adsorbs, reacts, and/or changes state.  To predict and analyze this process, the mathematics of diffusion is applied to lakes, rivers, groundwater, the atmosphere, the oceans, and transport between these media.  A...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Gulliver, John S. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
Edición:1st ed. 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Transport and Fate of Chemicals in the Environment, Introduction
  • 2. Chemicals in the Environment, Diffusive Transport
  • 3. Toxic Organic Chemicals
  • 4. Transport in the Environment
  • 5. Chemicals in the Environment, Turbulent Transport
  • 6. Chemicals in the Environment, Dispersive Transport
  • 7.  Transport with Jets and Plumes of Chemicals in the Environment
  • 8. Atmosphere-Water Exchange
  • 9. Sediment-Water Interfaces, Chemical Flux at
  • 10. River Fate and Transport
  • 11. Lake and Reservoir Fate and Transport of Chemicals
  • 12. Oceanic Fate and Transport of Chemicals
  • 13. Subsurface Fate and Transport of Chemicals
  • Index.