Publisher's Synopsis
Physical Chemical Properties & Environmental Fate Handbook CRCnetBASE 1999 brings together physical-chemical data for similarly structured groups of chemical substances, which influence their fate in the multimedia environment of air, water, soils, sediments, and resident biota. This continually updated CD-ROM synthesizes the comprehensive five-volume set of the Illustrated Handbook of Physical-Chemical Properties and Environmental Fate for Organic Chemicals, covering these topics:
This product presents full references and methods of measurement, citing multiple values, and recommending the "best" value
The task of assessing chemical fate locally, regionally, and globally is complicated by the large (and increasing) number of chemicals of potential concern, by uncertainties in their physical-chemical properties, and by lack of knowledge of prevailing environmental conditions. Reported values of properties are often in conflict. Some are measured accurately, some approximately, and some estimated by various correlation schemes from molecular structure. In some cases, units or chemical identity are wrongly reported. The user of such data thus has the difficulty of selecting the "best" or "right" values.
Assisting the environmental scientist and engineer, Physical Chemical Properties & Environmental Fate Handbook CRCnetBASE 1999 contains compilations of physical-chemical property data for series of chemicals. This resource provides:
This unique feature of chemical-to-chemical comparison can be valuable for identifying errors and estimating properties.
The data are taken a stage further by estimating the likely environmental partitioning tendencies, i.e., how the chemical may become distributed between the various media comprising the biosphere. Physical Chemical Properties & Environmental Fate Handbook CRCnetBASE 1999 presents results numerically and pictorially to provide a visual impression of likely environmental behavior - assisting those persons who assess environmental fate by confirming the general fate characteristics or behavior profile.
Physical Chemical Properties &Environmental Fate Handbook CRCnetBASE 1999 contributes to a better assessment of chemical fate in the multimedia environment - serving as a reference for environmentally relevant physical-chemical property data of classes of chemicals and illustrating the likely behavior of these chemicals as they migrate through the biosphere.
