Environmental Chemistry 2e

by Colin Baird and Michael Cann

Book Overview

This text explores the relationship between chemistry and the environment from the chemical viewpoint. It covers major topical issues such as the greenhouse effect, the ozone layer, pesticides, and air and water pollution.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0716731533
• ISBN13: 9780716731535
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: W.H. Freeman & Company
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Good environmental chemistry book

This text was required for a Water and Wastewater chemistry class, but the information contained in it, far surpasses what was needed for class. I kept this book as I can see myself using it again in the future.

Great Environmental Chem Text

I took a web-based environmental chem course, and this book was used in lieu of lectures. The author does an outstanding job of presentation and the text is very well-organized. Includes a lot of current information. The problems within the text are very challenging and reflect real world issues (i.e., PCB concentrations in the Great Lakes) My only criticism is that the chapters are sometimes overly long. Other than that, this is one of the best E-chem texts I've come up against, and I certainly learned more from it than I would have from listening to a prof lecturing for a term. Recommended highly!

Good presentation of a broad topic.

I am also a chemistry student and I found the book to be rather easy, but that is because the text is very clearly written with good presentation and concise wording. It is certainly a good place to start in trying to understand an environmental problem, especially if the readers background in chemistry is only on a general and limited organic level.

Informative, easy to understand

Environmetal chemistry is a very helpful book for studensts in environmental chemistry studies. But as a pure chemistry student i find some parts of the book too easy, even boring at times, specially the chapters on organic environmental chemistry.On the other hand the chapters on physical environmental chemistry are very good and contain challenging problems.