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Michael E. Essington (Ed.), Soil and Water Chemistry:An Integrative Approach, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL,2004, 550 pp., US$ 69.95, ISBN 0-8493-1258-2.

This book was written as a text for both undergraduateand early graduate students. It is the outgrowth of a courseoffered by the author; this course was required at the Uni-versity of Tennessee, Knoxville, for environmental and soilscience majors.

Essington, in his preface, describes the book’s contentwell:

“This textbook begins with an overview of the soil environ-ment and the chemical processes that operate to distributematter between the soil solid, solution, and atmosphere. Nextcomes a discussion of the concept of speciation, the conceptof spatial variability and spatial statistics.”

“Chapters 2, 3, and 4 are devoted to the soil solids. Chap-ter 2, ‘Soil Minerals,’ begins by discussing the ‘glue’that bonds atoms together in mineral structures and therules that describe how these atoms are arranged in three-dimensional space (Pauling’s rules). The remainder of thechapter describes the silicates, emphasizing the phyllosili-cates, and the hydrous metal oxides. Finally, X-ray diffractionand its application to identifying clay minerals are discussed.C in-e veryi duali emi-c inest er is( turalc tionb wella non-h ationsf l and( es area

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characterizing the soil’s capacity to exchange cations, thequantitative characteristics of cation exchange, and the tech-niques to quantify exchange behavior.”

Oxidation–reduction processes in soils are examined inChapter 9. The final two chapters (10 and 11) treat topics ofregional interest. They are entitled “Acidity in Soil Materials”and “Soil Salinity and Sodicity.”

Each chapter concludes with a section containing numer-ous exercises, all of which have been utilized by the authorin his classes.

Gary F. Bennett∗University of Toledo, Department of Chemical and

Environmental Engineering, Mail Stop 305Toledo, OH 43606-3390, USA

∗ Tel.: +1 419 531 1322; fax: +1 419 530 8086E-mail address:gbennett@eng.utoledo.edu

31 May 2005Available online 18 July 2005

doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2005.06.010

Lawrence K. Wang, Norman C. Pereira, Yung-Tse Hung(Eds.), Advanced Air and Noise Pollution Control (Hand-bP 1-5

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hapter 3, ‘Chemical Weathering,’ focuses on clay mral transformations. This chapter also (re)introduces a

mportant capability that must be mastered by any indivin a chemistry-based course or discipline: balancing chal reactions. Chapter 4, ‘Organic Matter in Soil,’ examhe organic component of the soil solid phase. The readre)introduced to the organic functional groups and strucomponents that occur in soil organic matter. The distincetween non-humic and humic substances is drawn, ass the mechanisms for isolating humic substances. Theumic substances are described, as are their transform

rom biomolecules to humic substances. The chemicapseudo)structural characteristics of the humic substanclso discussed.”

Chapter 5 “. . . begins by discussing chemical characstics of water, the universal solvent, and ends by examome important analytical methods used to determineoncentrations of dissolved substances in soil solutions.uthor notes that this material, by itself, constitutes a co

n water chemistry.“Chapters 6, 7, and 8 examine the processes that dist

atter between the soil and solution phases. In ChapMineral Solubility,’ the soil solid and solution characterics that control the precipitation and dissolution of minhemicals are examined.” Chapter 7, “Surface Chemnd Adsorption Reactions,” is also a very long chapte

t discusses adsorption and partitioning reactions whichhe principal mechanisms by which all organic solutesany inorganic substances are retained in soils. Chap

Cation Exchange,” “. . . focuses on the history, methods

ook of Environmental Engineering, vol. 2), TheHumanaress, Totowa, NJ, 2005, 544 pp., US$ 175.00, ISBN9259-779-3.

This is the second book in the series ofEnvironmentaandbooksauthored by Wang and his collaborators. I hreviously reviewed the other two books. Like those o

wo efforts, this book is excellent.The editors note in the preface that “This volumedvanced Air and Noise Pollution Control, a companio

o the volume,Air Pollution Control Engineering, has beeesigned to serve as a basic air pollution control designook as well as a comprehensive reference book.” Toge

hese two books are a comprehensive treatise on theith the first volume focusing on the “fundamentals ofollution control” such as fabric filtration, cyclones, EStc. This volume treats more advanced air pollution touch as control of NOx from stationary combustion sourontrol of heavy metals and odor. Also discussed are therol and cooling of thermal discharges. There are also ohapters on a variety of related topics that include inollution control, radon pollution control, and noise po

ion and its control.I was particularly appreciative of Wang’s technique in

hapters he authored himself of including sample probnd the calculations attendant thereto. Unfortunately, helmost the only author to do so.

There is a chapter on carbon sequestration. The auobert Kane and Daniel Kline, discuss CO2 separation, cap