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Second Edition
By
Donald Sparks, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
Description
Environmental Soil Chemistry illustrates fundamental principles of soil chemistry with respect to environmental reactions between soils
and other natural materials and heavy metals, pesticides, industrial contaminants, acid rain, and salts. Timely and comprehensive discussions
of applications to real-world environmental concerns are a central focus of this established text.
Audience
Upper level undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and professionals, in environmental soil science, environmental and agricultural engineering, marine studies, and geochemistry.
Contents
Environmental Soil Chemistry: An Overview:
Evolution of Soil Chemistry.
The Modern Environmental Movement.
Contaminants in
Waters and Soils.
Case Study of Pollution of Soils and Waters.
Soil Decontamination.
Inorganic Soil Components:
Pauling's
Rules.
Primary Soil Minerals.
Secondary Soil Minerals.
Specific Surface of Soil Minerals.
Surface Charge of Soil Minerals.
Identification of Minerals by X-Ray Diffraction Analyses.
Use of Clay Minerals to Retain Organic Contaminants.
Chemistry of Soil
Organic Matter:
Effects of Soil Formation Factors on SOM Contents.
Composition of SOM. Fractionation of SOM.
SOM Structure.
Functional Groups and Charge Characteristics.
Humic Substance-Metal Interactions.
SOM-Clay Complexes.
Retention of Pesticides
and Other Organic Substances by Humic Substances.
Soil Solution-Solid Phase Equilibria:
Measurement of the Soil Solution. Speciation
of the Soil Solution.
Ion Activity and Activity Coefficients.
Dissolution and Solubility Processes.
Sorption Phenomena on Soils:
Introduction and Terminology.
Surface Functional Groups.
Surface Complexes.
Adsorption Isotherms.
Equilibrium-Based Adsorption
Models.
Surface Precipitation.
Sorption of Metal Cations.
Sorption of Anions.
Points of Zero Charge.
Desorption.
Use of Spectroscopic
and Microscopic Methods in Determining Mechanisms for Sorption-Desorption Phenomena.
Ion Exchange Processes:
Characteristics
of Ion Exchange.
Cation Exchange Equilibrium Constants and Selectivity Coefficients.
Thermodynamics of Ion Exchange.
Relationship
between Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Ion Exchange.
Kinetics of Soil Chemical Processes:
Rate-Limiting Steps and Time Scales
of Soil Chemical Reactions.
Rate Laws. Determination of Reaction Order and Rate Constants.
Kinetic Models.
Kinetic Methodologies.
Effect of Temperature on Reaction Rates.
Kinetics of Important Soil Chemical Processes.
Redox Chemistry of Soils:
Oxidation-Reduction
Reactions and Potentials.
Eh vs pH and pe vs pH Diagrams.
Measurement and Use of Redox Potentials.
Submerged Soils. Redox Reactions
Involving Inorganic and Organic Pollutants.
The Chemistry of Soil Acidity:
Historical Perspective of Soil Activity.
Solution
Chemistry of Aluminum.
Exchangeable and Nonexchangeable Aluminum.
Soil Acidity.
Liming Soils.
The Chemistry of Saline and Sodic
Soils:
Causes of Soil Salinity.
Sources of Soluble Salts.
Important Salinity and Sodicity Parameters.
Classification and
Reclamation of Saline and Sodic Soils.
Effects of Soil Salinity and Sodicity on Soil Structural Properties.
Effects of Soil Salinity
on Plant Growth.
Appendix A.
Appendix B.
Bibliography.
Chapter References.
Subject Index.
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 352 pages, publication date: NOV-2002
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-656446-4
ISBN-10: 0-12-656446-9
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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