Text for Laboratory Experiments

Experiments in Environmental Chemistry A Laboratory Manual

Vowles, P.D. and D.W. Connell.

1980 , Pergamon Press, NY

ISBN 0-08-024010-0

Table of content

1. Photosynthesis, respiration, and biochemical oxygen demand

2. Eutrophication

3. Sewage treatment – a field trip

4. Insecticides in cigarette smoke

5. Gas chromatography of volatile hydrocarbons

6. Toxicity of copper ions toward aquatic biota

7. Lead in household paint

8. Atmospheric pollutants

9. Aflatoxins in peanuts

10. Food additives

11. Erucic acid content of bread

12. DDT in human milk

13. Chemical defense of the Monarch butterfly

14. Stream pollution