Fluorine and the Environment: Agrochemicals, Archaeology, Green Chemistry and Water, Volume 2 (Hardcover, 2nd edition)

Advances in Fluorine Science is a new book series presenting critical multidisciplinary overviews on areas in which fluorine and fluoride compounds have a decisive impact. The individual volumes of Advances in Fluorine Science are thematic, addressing comprehensively both the science and applications on topics including the Environment, Green chemistry, Medicine, Health & Life Sciences, New Technologies & Materials Science, Energy and the Earth Sciences.
In the present volume, the key-position of fluoro-products in agriculture is reviewed, since a large percentage of agro-chemicals and pesticides contain at least one fluorine atom. However, improvements in the use of fluorine-based products in agrochemicals cannot be developed without taking into consideration a safer environment, on both levels of greener synthesis routes and a reduction of the negative impact on plants and organisms. Within this scope, fluorine has a very peculiar place, since its high reactivity yields several advantages, for instance in by-passing various polluting multi-step reactions.
Fluorine-based materials are reviewed as efficient tools for protecting our cultural heritage. Also using up-to-date techniques such as ion beam analysis, this element can help relative dating applications, ranging from burial durations of archaeological bones and teeth to the determination of exposure ages of meteorites on the Antarctic ice shield.
* Providing an original approach of the complex relationships between chemistry and the environment
* Reviewing the key-position of fluoro-products in agriculture
* Multidisciplinary contributions from chemists, geologists, biologists, environmentalists and industry staffs

General

Imprint:	Elsevier Science Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Advances in Fluorine Science
Release date:	October 2006
First published:	2006
Series editors:	Alain Tressaud
Dimensions:	240 x 165 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	296
Edition:	2nd edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-444-52672-4
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > General
LSN:	0-444-52672-2
Barcode:	9780444526724

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