CHEM 404

Physicochemical Aspects of Natural Waters

  • Prerequisite: CHEM 254; CHEM 262, 264, or 266; or consent of the instructor.
  • Textbook: Environmental Organic Chemistry by Schwarzenbach, Gschwend, and Imboden, J. Wiley & Sons.

Properties of water; chemicals in the environment; environmental fate of inorganic and organic pollutants; basic phenomena affecting the fate of water pollutants (vapor pressure; activity, solubility, partitioning, diffusion, sorption); acids and bases in water; dissolved CO2; trace metals in water.

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