Metals in Surface Waters

About this book

Metals in Surface Waters presents state-of-the-art research and applications on the full range of subjects, including toxicity to aquatic organisms as well as humans with an emphasis on metals speciation. The book explores metals contamination of surface waters from several different disciplines, such as analytical chemistry, aquatic chemistry and toxicology, environmental engineering, and oceanography.

Contents

Trace Metals In Estuaries: A Delaware Bay Synthesis * Metals and Colloids in Urban Runoff * Industrial Discharges of Metals to Water * Waste Load Allocations for Metals * Development of Site-Specific Marine Copper Criteria for New York/New Jersey Harbor * Accuracy in Analysis - Importance of Clean Metal Sampling and Analysis * Determination of Metal Speciation in Seawater Using Cathodic Stripping Voltammetry * New Departures for Elemental Speciation Studies Utilizing Plasma Mass Spectrometric Detection * Metal Binding by Humic Substances in Surface Waters - Experimental and Modeling Constraints * Modeling Metal Speciation in Aquatic Systems * Partitioning of Metals to Suspended Particles * The Redox-pH Chemistry of Chromium in Water and Sediment * Subject Index.

Customer Reviews