Text for Laboratory Experiments

Laboratory Experiments in Environmental Chemistry.

Boebnke, Neal D. and R. Del Delumyea, 2000.

Prentice-Hall, Inc. Upper Saddle River, NJ

ISBN 0-13-917171-1

Table of content

1. Statistical treatment of raw data and properties of natural waters

2. Collection and preservation of water and sediment samples: inorganic and organic profiles of soil and sediment cores

3. The pH and buffer capacity of environmental waters

4. Alkalinity of streams and lakes

5. Use of ion-selective electrodes to determine trace levels of ions in natural waters

6. Conductivity of various waters

7. Determination of chloride ion in natural waters: A comparison of methods

8. Determination of the hardness of natural waters

9. Spectroscopy, colorimetry, and absorption spectra:
determining iron and manganese in natural water

10. Determination of trace amounts of metals by AAS

11. Removal of chromium from wastewater at the ppm level

12. Solubility of oxygen in pure and natural waters and its dependence on temperature and salinity

13. Spectrophotometric determination of the chemical oxygen demand of natural waters and wastewaters using a standard method

14. Determination of oils and greases by Soxhlet extraction

15. Fluorimetric determination of polycyclic hydrocarbons

16. Determination of the octanol/water partition coefficients for organic pollutants of varying hydrophobic/hydrophilic character

17. Determination of oil-spill sources using pattern recognition of known petroleum product gas chromatograms

18. Analysis of environmental hydrocarbons using simple extraction and analysis by flame ionization detection gas chromatography

19. Kinetics of the decomposition of pollutants in the environment with an application to plasticizers

20. Properties of detergents: surface tension measurement of critical micelle concentration