文档介绍：Manahan, Stanley E. "Frontmatter"
Fundamentals of Environmental Chemistry
Boca Raton: CRC Press LLC,2001
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
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Fundamentals of Environmental Chemistry, 2nd edition, is written with two
major objectives in mind. The first of these is to provide a reader having little or no
background in chemistry with the fundamentals of chemistry needed for a trade,
profession, or curriculum of study that requires a basic knowledge of these topics.
The second objective of the book is to provide a basic coverage of modern environ-
mental chemistry. This is done within a framework of industrial ecology and an
emerging approach to chemistry that e to be known as “green chemistry.”
Virtually everyone needs some knowledge of chemistry. Unfortunately, this
vital, interesting discipline “turns off” many of the very people who need a
rudimentary knowledge of it. There are many reasons that this is so. For example,
“chemophobia,” an unreasoned fear of insidious contamination of food, water, and
air with chemicals at undetectable levels that may cause cancer and other maladies is
widespread among the general population. The language of chemistry is often made
plex so that those who try to learn it retreat from concepts such as moles,
orbitals, electronic configurations, chemical bonds, and molecular structure before
coming to realize that these ideas prehensible and even interesting and
useful.
Fundamentals of Environmental Chemistry is designed to be simple and
understandable, and it is the author’s hope that readers will find it interesting and
applicable to their own lives. Without being overly simplistic or misleading, it seeks
to present chemical principles in ways that even a reader with a minimal background
in, or no particular aptitude for, science and mathematics can master the material in
it and apply it to a trade, profession, or course of study.
One of the ways in which Environmental Chemistry Funda