An ever-increasing concern over environmental degradation,
together with recent technological advances, has spawned an
explosion of chemical data for a wide variety of matter found on
earth and in the solar system. Yuan-Hui Li's book offers
professionals and students alike an indispensable up-to-date guide
to geochemistry, bringing together new information on topics
ranging from nucleosynthesis to crystal chemistry, from the
systematics of chemical variation in the earth's core to the
composition of complex organics. The objective is to illustrate the
physicochemical principles and various natural processes that can
explain observed compositional changes in natural substances. A
general understanding of these principles and processes (including
those pertaining to cosmology, geology, and biology) is essential,
maintains the author, for deciphering and predicting transport
pathways and final sinks of anthropogenic pollutants in our
environment.
The book focuses on compositional data and related references
for such substances as solar photosphere, meteorites, igneous
rocks, soils, sedimentary rocks, surficial waters, marine and
terrestrial organisms (including humans), and aerosols. It
emphasizes the use of original raw data as much as possible, and
applies the statistical technique of factor analysis to elucidate
any underlying interrelationships among chemical elements and given
sample sets. Whenever applicable, simple chemical thermodynamic
models are introduced to explain the observed partitioning of
elements among different phases.
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