Environmental inorganic chemistry / Kurt J.Irgolic, Arthur E. Martell.

Preface.--1. Environmental inorganic chemistry.--2.Inorganic chemistry of the ocean.--3.Speciation of metal complexes and methods of predicting thermodynamics of metal ligand reactions.--4. Factors influencing the coordination chemistry of metal ions in aqueous solutions.--5. Environmental factors in the inorganic chemistry of natural systems.--6. Trace metals in the ligurian and northern tyrrhenian seans, results and suggestions for further studies.--7. Chemistry of metal oxides in natural water.--8. Secondary minerals.--9.Environmental inorganic chemistry of main group elements with special emplhasis on thei ocuurrence as methyl derivaqtives.--10.Rates of methylation of mercury .--11. The environmmental chemistry of metals with examples from studies of the speciation of cadmium.--12.Design of metal specific ligands.--13. Mixed metal complexes of biofunctional ligands: formation , stability and possible role in model systems with metal ion overloads.--14.Behavio of radionuclides in the marine environment present state of knowledge and future needs.--15. Speciation of plutonium in seawater.--16.Bioturbation and fate of radionuclides.--17.Specific agents for ion and actinides.--18.mercuy accumulation in a pelagic foodchain.--19.Chemical studies of Aquatic pollution by heavy metals in china.--20.Determination of the chemical forms of toxic elements in environmental aquatic samples from china.--21. Mercury in river sediments.--22.Deposition of atmospheric and metal pollutants and their impact on the freswater environmet case studies in switzerland.--23.Deposition of atmospheric and metal pollutants and theis impact on the freshwater .--24. Recovery and reuse of inoganic materials in the tannery industry.--25. Assessment of exposure of human populations to heavy metalks through dietary intakes .--