Soil and Environmental Analysis: Modern Instrumental Techniques

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Keith A. Smith, Malcolm S. Cresser
CRC Press, Oct 15, 2003 - Technology & Engineering - 700 pages
Evaluating traditional and recent analytical methods according to speed, sensitivity, and cost-efficiency, this reference supports specialists in the selection of effective analytical techniques and equipment for the study of soils, soil contaminants, and environmental samples. Updated and revised, this Third Edition illustrates the advantages, limitations, range, and challenges of the major analytical approaches utilized in modern research laboratories. It includes new chapters and expanded discussions of the measurement of organic pollutants in the environment and gas fluxes between the land surface and atmosphere, and an extensive range of environmental materials.
 

Contents

Atomic Absorption and Flame Emission Spectrometry
1
Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectrometry
53
Electroanalytical Methods in Environmental Chemical Analysis
111
ContinuousFlow FlowInjection and Discrete Analysis
137
Ion Chromatography
189
Automated Instruments for the Determination of Total Carbon Hydrogen Nitrogen Sulfur and Oxygen
235
XRay Fluorescence Analysis
283
Measurement of Radioisotopes and Ionizing Radiation
345
Stable Isotope Analysis and Applications
381
Measurement of Trace Gases I Gas Analysis Chamber Methods and Related Procedures
433
Measurement of Trace Gases II Micrometeorological Methods at the PlottoLandscape Scale
477
Analysis of Organic Pollutants in Environmental Samples
515
Index
543
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