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Air composition & chemistry / Peter Brimblecombe

Author
Brimblecombe, Peter, 1949-
Additional Titles
Air composition and chemistry
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Description
xii, 253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

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Contents
THE ATMOSPHERE: Chemical composition -- Residence time -- Size and pressure variation -- Radiation and thermal structure -- General circulation -- Water -- THE NATURAL COMPONENTS OF THE AIR: Biological sources -- Geochemical sources -- Atmospheric sources -- Sinks -- Global cycles and residence times -- GAS PHASE CHEMISTRY OF THE ATMOSPHERE: Reaction rates -- Photochemistry -- The methane cycle and continuity -- Atmospheric chemistry of the hydroxyl radical -- The nitrate radical -- AEROSOLS: The origin of aerosols -- Size spectra of atmospheric particulate/aerosol material -- Enrichment of trace components on particles -- Absorption and chemistry on particle surfaces -- Optical effects of particles -- THE CHEMISTRY OF AQUEOUS SYSTEMS: Cloud physics -- The solubility of gases -- The transfer of gases to liquids -- The composition of precipitation -- Chemical reactions in droplets -- SOURCES OF POLLUTION: Combustion processes -- Incineration and impurities in fuels -- High-temperature sources -- Low-temperature sources -- Photochemical pollution -- Heterogeneous reactions-particulate materials and rainfall -- Air pollution meteorology -- AIR POLLUTION AND ITS EFFECTS: Urban air -- Health -- Effects on plants and animals -- Effects on building materials -- Indoor pollution -- The museum environment -- Acid rain and acid deposition -- Global pollution -- THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE: Ozone and the chemistry of the stratosphere -- Stratospheric aerosols and the ozone hole -- The upper atmosphere -- Sporadic processes in the ionosphere -- Policy and change -- THE ATMOSPHERES OF THE PLANETS AND THEIR EVOLUTION: The stability of planetary atmospheres -- Surface boundary exospheres -- Tenuous colder atmospheres -- Atmospheres of the outer planets -- Atmospheres of the terrestrial planets -- The origin and evolution of secondary atmospheres -- Life and the evolution of our atmosphere.
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ISBN
0521453666 (hardback)
0521459729 (pbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-249) and index.
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