Soil and water chemistry : an integrative approach /: an integrative approach. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Michael E. Essington.
• Authors: Essington, Michael E
• Contents: Soil Chemical Environment: An Overview ; Phases and Chemical Processes in Soil; Elements in the Soil Environment: Their Concentrations, Speciation, and General Behavior; Units and Conversions; Heterogeneity of Soil Chemical Characteristics; Exercises; References; Soil Minerals ; Chemical Bonds; Pauling's Rules; Crystal Structure; Silicate Classes; Clay Mineralogy; Hydrous Metal Oxides; X-Ray Diffraction Analysis; Exercises; References; Chemical Weathering ; Hydrolysis and Oxidation; Balancing Chemical Reactions; Mineral Stability: Primary Silicates in the Sand- and Silt-Sized Fractions; Mineral Stability: Clay-Sized Fraction; Weathering and Formation Characteristics of the Phyllosilicates; General Weathering Scheme for the Phyllosilicates; Exercises; References; Organic Matter in Soil ; Determination of Soil Organic Carbon Concentrations; Organic Functional Groups: A Review; Nonhumic Substances; Humic Substances; Exercises; References; Soil Water Chemistry ; Nature of Water; Ion Hydration; Electrolyte Solutions; Hydrolysis of Cations; Lowry-Brønsted Acids and Bases; Complex Ions and Ion Pairs; Ion Association Model; Ion Speciation in Soil Solutions; Qualitative Aspects of Ion Speciation; Soil Water Sampling Methodologies; Methods of Chemical Analysis: Elemental Analysis; Exercises; References; Mineral Solubility ; Mineral Solubility: Basic Principles; Application of Mineral Solubility Principles: Impediments; Deviation of Ksp from Kdis; Mineral Solubility and Solution Composition; Stability Diagrams; Predicting Solution Composition; Exercises; References; Oxidation-Reduction Reactions in Soils ; Electron Activity and Stability of Water; Redox Potential Measurements; Redox Status in Soils; pe-pH Predominance Diagrams; Exercises; References; Surface Chemistry and Adsorption Reactions ; Surface Functional Groups and Complexes; Solid-Solution Interface: A Microscopic View; Quantitative Description of Adsorption; Specific Retention of Metals and Ligands; Ligand Effects on Metal Adsorption; Organic Surface Functional Groups and Organic Molecular Retention Mechanisms; Surface Complexation Models; Exercises; References; Cation Exchange ; Cation Exchange: A Beginning for Soil Chemistry; Qualitative Aspects of Cation Exchange; Cation-Exchange Capacity and Exchange Phase Composition; Quantitative Description of Cation Exchange; Exercises; References; Acidity in Soil Materials ; Measurement of Soil Solution pH; Chemical and Biochemical Processes That Influence Soil Solution pH; Acid-Neutralizing Capacity and the Quantification of Soil Acidity; Neutralization of Soil Acidity; Acid Generation and Management in Mine Spoils: The Oxidation of Pyrite; Exercises; References; Soil Salinity and Sodicity ; Sources of Salts and Problematic Elements; Diagnostic Characteristics of Saline and Sodic Soils; Irrigation Water Quality Parameters and Relationships; Genesis, Management, and Reclamation of Salt-Affected Soils; Exercises; References; Chemical Thermodynamics Applied to Soil Systems ; Thermodynamic Soil System; Gibbs-Duhem Equation and the Gibbs Phase Rule; Chemical Equilibria in Soils; Ionic Species; Exercises; References;
• Edition: 2nd edition
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (656 pages), (100 illustrations)
• Subjects: 631.41; Soil chemistry; Water chemistry
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781466573239; 1466573236
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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