Reactive Halogen Compounds in the Atmosphere

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fabian, Peter (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Singh, Onkar N. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1999.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1999.
• Series: Air Pollution, 4 / 4E
• Subjects: 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 stratosphe...

Table of Contents:

• 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.