Reactive Halogen Compounds in the Atmosphere

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Fabian, Peter (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Singh, Onkar N. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1999.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 1999.
• Σειρά: Air Pollution, 4 / 4E
• Θέματα: Air pollution.; Environmental pollution.; Environmental management.; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution.; Terrestrial Pollution.; Environmental Management.

 Benign substances such as CFCs - nontoxic, noncorrosive, nonflammable and nonreactive with most other substances and considered ideal compounds for many purposes threaten our life protective shield, the atmospheric ozone layer. These "wonder compounds", drifting intact up to the stratosphere, are photolyzed there by the Sun's UV radiation releasing millions of tons of chlorine atoms each one capable of catalytically destroying thousands of ozone molecules. Scientific evidence clearly shows that chlorine and bromine compounds, such as CFCs, released into the atmosphere are responsible for continuous and progressing global ozone losses superimposed by dramatic seasonal ozone depletions over Antarctica and Arctic regions as well. Substitutes are produced and emitted today, partly halogenated hydrocarbons, some of which are highly reactive in the troposphere. Along with reactive substances of natural origin, they have opened a new dimension of atmospheric photochemistry. This handbook volume deals with these reactive halogen compounds and their interactions.It provides a review of the present knowledge of their properties, applications, sources, sinks as well as international regulations. 

 P. Fabian and O.N. Singh: Reactive Bromine Compounds -- M.A.K. Khalil: Reactive Chlorine Compunds -- J. Harnisch: Reactive Fluorine Compounds -- R. Vogt: Reactive Iodine Compounds -- P.M. Midgley and A. McCulloch: Properties and Applications of Industrial Halocarbons -- P.M. Midgley and A. McCulloch: Production, Sales and Emissions of Man-Made Methyl Bromide -- T. Duafala and M. Gillis: Properties, Applications and Emissions of Man-Made Methyl Bromide -- P.M. Midgley and A. McCulloch: International Regulations on Halocarbons.