UID:
almahu_9949697292702882
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 573 pages) :
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illustrations (some color)
Edition:
Second edition.
ISBN:
0-12-804195-1
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9780128041856
Series Statement:
Gale eBooks
Content:
This book presents key aspects of soil chemistry in environmental science, including dose responses, risk characterization, and practical applications of calculations using spreadsheets. It offers a holistic, practical approach to the application of environmental chemistry to soil science.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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""Front Cover""; ""Soil and Environmental Chemistry""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1: Elements: Their Origin and Abundance""; ""Dose-Response Distributions""; ""Introduction""; ""A Brief History of the Solar System and Planet Earth""; ""The Composition of Earth's Crust and Soils""; ""The Abundance of Elements in the Solar System, Earth's Crust, and Soils""; ""Elements and Isotopes""; ""Nuclear Binding Energy""; ""Enrichment and Depletion during Planetary Formation""; ""Planetary Accretion""; ""The Rock Cycle""; ""Soil Formation""
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""Concentration Frequency Distributions of the Elements""""Estimating the Most Probable Concentration and Concentration Range Using the LOGARITHMIC TRANSFORMATION""; ""Summary""; ""Factors Governing Nuclear Stability and Isotope Abundance""; ""The Table of Isotopes and Nuclear Magic Numbers""; ""Nuclear Magic Numbers""; ""Nucleosynthesis""; ""Nuclear Reactions""; ""Nuclear Fusion""; ""Neutron Capture""; ""Cosmic Ray Spallation""; ""Transuranium Elements""; ""Thermonuclear FUSION Cycles""; ""The CNO Cycle""; ""The Triple-Alpha Process""; ""Carbon Burning""
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""Neutron-Emitting Reactions that Sustain the S-Process""""Random Sequential Dilutions and the Law of Proportionate Effect""; ""The Estimate of Central Tendency and Variation of a Log-Normal Distribution""; ""Chapter 2: Soil Moisture and Hydrology""; ""Introduction""; ""Water Resources and the Hydrologic Cycle""; ""Water Budgets""; ""Residence Time and Runoff Ratios""; ""Groundwater Hydrology""; ""Water in the Porosphere""; ""Hydrologic Units""; ""Darcy's Law""; ""Hydrostatic Heads and Hydrostatic Gradients""; ""Intrinsic Permeability""; ""Groundwater Flow Nets""; ""Vadose Zone Hydrology""
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""Capillary Forces""""Soil Moisture Zones""; ""The Water Characteristic Curve and Vadose Zone Hydraulic Conductivity""; ""Elementary Solute Transport Models""; ""The Retardation Coefficient Model""; ""Plate Theory: Multiple Sequential Partitioning""; ""Summary""; ""Soil Moisture Recharge and Loss""; ""The Water-Holding Capacity of a Soil Profile""; ""Predicting Capillary Rise""; ""Symbols and Units in the Derivation of the Retardation Coefficient Model of Solute Transport""; ""Symbols and Units in the Derivation of the Plate Theory Model of Solute Transport""
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""Empirical Water Characteristic Function and Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity""""Chapter 3: Clay Mineralogy and Clay Chemistry""; ""Introduction""; ""Mineral Weathering""; ""Mineralogy""; ""The Structure of Layer Silicates""; ""Coordination Polyhedra""; ""The Phyllosilicate Tetrahedral Sheet""; ""The Phyllosilicate Octahedral Sheet""; ""Kaolinite Layer Structure""; ""Talc Layer Structure""; ""Mica-Illite Layer Structure""; ""Chlorite and Hydroxy-Interlayered Smectite Layer Structure""; ""Layer Structure of the Swelling Clay Minerals: Smectite and Vermiculite""; ""Formal Oxidation Numbers""
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""The Geometry of Pauling's Radius Ratio Rule""
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-12-804178-1
Language:
English
