Environmental Laboratory Exercises for Instrumental Analysis and Environmental Chemistry

PREFACE.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
TO THE INSTRUCTOR.
PART 1: PRELIMINARY EXERCISES.
1. How to Keep a Legally Defensible Laboratory Notebook.
2. Statistical Analysis.
3. Field Sampling Equipment for Environmental Samples.
PART 2: EXPERIMENTS FOR AIR SAMPLES.
4. Determination of Henry's Law Constants.
5. Global Warming: Determining If a Gas Is Infrared Active.
6. Monitoring the Presence of Hydrocarbons in Air aroundGasoline Stations.
PART 3: EXPERIMENTS FOR WATER SAMPLES.
7. Determination of an Ion Balance for a Water Sample.
8. Measuring the Concentration of Chlorinated Pesticides inWater Samples.
9. Determination of Chloride, Bromide, and Fluoride in WaterSamples.
10. Analysis of Nickel Solutions by Ultraviolet-VisibleSpectrometry.
PART 4: EXPERIMENTS FOR HAZARDOUS WASTE.
11. Determination of the Composition of Unleaded Gasoline UsingGas Chromatography.
12. Precipitation of Metals from Hazardous Waste.
13. Determination of the Nitroaromatics in Synthetic Wastewaterfrom a Munitions Plant.
14. Determination of a Surrogate Toxic Metal in a SimulatedHazardous Waste Sample.
15. Reduction of Substituted Nitrobenzenes by Anaerobic HumicAcid Solutions.
PART 5: EXPERIMENTS FOR SEDIMENT AND SOIL SAMPLES.
16. Soxhlet Extraction and Analysis of a Soil or Sediment SampleContaminated with n-Pentadecane.
17. Determination of a Clay-Water Distribution Coefficientfor Copper.
PART 6: WET EXPERIMENTS.
18. Determination of Dissolved Oxygen in Water Using the WinklerMethod.
19. Determination of the Biochemical Oxygen Demand of SewageInfluent.
20. Determination of Inorganic and Organic Solids in WaterSamples: Mass Balance Exercise.
21. Determination of Alkalinity of Natural Waters.
22. Determination of Hardness in a Water Sample.
PART 7: FATE AND TRANSPORT CALCULATIONS.
23. pC-pH Diagrams: Equilibrium Diagrams for Weak Acid andBase Systems.
24. Fate and Transport of Pollutants in Rivers and Streams.
25. Fate and Transport of Pollutants in Lake Systems.
26. Fate and Transport of Pollutants in Groundwater Systems.
27. Transport of Pollutants in the Atmosphere.
28. Biochemical Oxygen Demand and the Dissolved Oxygen Sag Curvein a Stream: Streeter-Phelps Equation.
APPENDIX A: Periodic Table.
INDEX.