Analytical techniques for atmospheric measurement.9781405123570 Analytical techniques for atmospheric measurement. Ed. by Dwayne E. Heard. Blackwell Publishing 2006 510 pages $199.99 Hardcover QC876 With an emphasis on how a range of instruments work and which technique to use to perform the appropriate field observations, this text takes a practical approach suitable for the working atmospheric scientist or the graduate or undergraduate student of atmospheric and environmental chemistry and is the first to bring all the instrumental techniques together. Contributors cover the role of field measurements, instrument platforms, quality assurance, infrared absorption spectroscopy Absorption spectroscopy refers to a range of techniques employing the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter. (Spectroscopy is a word that has come to denote an even wider variety of techniques used in physics and chemistry. , UV-Visible differential optical absorption spectroscopy, florescence methods, mass spectrometry mass spectrometry or mass spectroscopy Analytic technique by which chemical substances are identified by sorting gaseous ions by mass using electric and magnetic fields. methods for atmospheric trace gases or aerosol composition measurements, chemical methods (chemoluminescence, chemical amplification, electrochemistry electrochemistry, science dealing with the relationship between electricity and chemical changes. Of principal interest are the reactions that take place between electrodes and the electrolytes in electric and electrolytic cells (see electrolysis), as well as the and derivation). Chromatographic chro·mat·o·graph n. An instrument that produces a chromatogram. tr.v. chro·mat·o·graphed, chro·mat·o·graph·ing, chro·mat·o·graphs To separate and analyze by chromatography. methods, and measurements of photolysis photolysis Breakdown of molecules into smaller units via absorption of light. Flash photolysis, an experimental technique developed by Manfred Eigen, Ronald George Weyford Norrish, and George Porter, studies short-lived chemical intermediates formed in many photochemical frequencies in the atmosphere. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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