Toxicants in Terrestrial Ecosystems A Guide for the Analytical and Environmental Chemist /

• Main Author: Crompton, T. R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Analytical chemistry.; Agriculture.; Ecotoxicology.; Water pollution.; Analytical Chemistry.; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution.

The presence of deliberately added or adventitious organic and inorganic compounds in soils can cause contamination of the crops which are grown on the land or animals feeding on the land, and, consequently can cause adverse toxic effects on man, animals, birds and insect life. Also, drainage of the...

Table of Contents:

• Sampling for the Analysis of Soil and Plant Sample
• Determination of Metals in Soils
• Determination of Radioactive Elements in Soil
• Determination of Organic Compounds in Soils
• Determination of Organometallic Compounds in Soils
• Determination of Anions in Soil
• Determination of Cations in Plant Materials, Vegetables and Fruit
• Determination of Organic Compounds in Plant Materials, Vegetables and Fruit
• Determination of Organometallic Compounds in Plants and Crops
• Determination of Anions in Plants and Crops
• Contaminant Contents of Soil and Crops.