Authors: Donald Langmuir
ISBN-13: 9780023674129, ISBN-10: 0023674121
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date Published: December 1996
Edition: 1st Edition
Langmuir provides a thorough presentation of natural chemical concentrations, systems and processes to help readers (1) understand controls on the chemical quality of surface and subsurface waters, and (2) distinguish between the natural and the anthropogenic.
Unlike most authors, whose civil/sanitary engineering backgrounds promote a more aquatic chemistry perspective, LangmuirÕs geology/geochemistry experience focuses coverage on the chemical interactions between water and geological materials. The book provides valuable training in using in the geochemical computer code MINTEQA2 as an integral problem-solving tool.
Preface | ||
1 | Thermochemical Principles | 1 |
2 | Chemical Kinetics | 50 |
3 | Aqueous Complexes | 82 |
4 | Activity Coefficients of Dissolved Species | 123 |
5 | Acids and Bases | 149 |
6 | Carbonate Chemistry | 193 |
7 | Chemical Weathering | 231 |
8 | General Controls on Natural Water Chemistry | 266 |
9 | The Geochemistry of Clay Minerals | 312 |
10 | Adsorption-Desorption Reactions | 343 |
11 | Oxidation-Reduction Concepts | 403 |
12 | Iron and Sulfur Geochemistry | 431 |
13 | Actinides and Their Daughter and Fission Products | 486 |
Geochemical Computer Models | 558 | |
References | 562 | |
Index | 590 |