The Environmental Chemistry of Aluminum / Edition 2

by Garrison Sposito

Overview

The Environmental Chemistry of Aluminum provides a comprehensive, fundamental account of the aqueous chemistry of aluminum within an environmental context. An excellent reference for environmental chemists and scientific administrators of environmental programs, this book contains material reflecting the many recent changes in this rapidly developing discipline.
The first three chapters discuss the most fundamental aspects of aluminum chemistry: its quantitation in soils and natural waters, including speciation measurements, and its stable chemical forms, both as a dissolved solute and in a solid phase. These chapters emphasize both critical assessments of and definitive recommendations for laboratory methodologies and measured thermodynamic properties relating to aluminum chemistry.
The next four chapters in The Environmental Chemistry of Aluminum build on this foundation to provide details of the polymeric chemistry of aluminum: its polynuclear and colloidal hydrolytic species in aqueous solution, its complexes with natural organic ligands, including humic substances, and its role as an adsorptive and adsorbent in surface reactions. These chapters are grounded in experimental results rather than conceptual modeling.
The final three chapters describe the chemistry of aluminum in soils, waters, and watersheds. These chapters illustrate the problems of spatial and temporal variability, metastability, and scale that continue to make aluminum geochemistry one of the great challenges in modern environmental science.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781566700306
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/27/1995
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	476
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Garrison Sposito (Author)

Table of Contents

The Quantitation of Aqueous Aluminum. Aqueous Equilibrium Data for Mononuclear Aluminum Species. Inorganic Aluminum Bearing Solid Phases. Aqueous Polynuclear Aluminum Species. Environmental Chemistry of Aluminum-Organic Complexes. Surface Reactions of Aqueous Aluminum Species. The Surface Chemistry of Aluminum Oxides and Hydroxides. The Solubility of Aluminum in Soils. The Chemistry of Aluminum in Surface Waters. Aluminum Geochemistry at the Catchment Scale in Watersheds Influenced by Acidic Precipitation. Index.

Catalog Copy (in Groundwater Catalog 1995)

Editorial Reviews

A comprehensive review of the aqueous chemistry of aluminum and its influence on water quality and soil ecosystems, particularly in terms of deforestation. The 23 contributors avoid speculation and concentrate instead on the known phenomena involving aluminum in natural waters and soils, providing fundamental chemical information and definitive recommendations for laboratory methodologies. The results of experiments described in the initial discussions are integrated with pictures of aluminum solubility and speciation as they occur in nature, the topical concern of the concluding essays. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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