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  • Natural Quasicrystals

    The Solar System’s Hidden Secrets

    by Luca Bindi ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book describes the discovery of quasicrystals (icosahedral and decagonal) in an extraterrestrial rock from the Koryak Mountains of Far Eastern Russia. After a decade-long search for a natural quasicrystal, this discovery opened a new avenue in mineralogy and crystallography that could lead to further discoveries in geoscience, astronomy, condensed matter physics, and materials engineering. ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Celebrating the International Year of Mineralogy

    Progress and Landmark Discoveries of the Last Decades

    Edited by Luca Bindi, Giuseppe Cruciani ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume celebrates mineral sciences and what are considered the most important progresses and breakthroughs in this discipline. Authoritative authors, who, in most cases, are the direct discoverers recount the steps of their research, which represent landmark developments of mineralogy and mineralogical crystallography. ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Geochemistry of Chromium in the Earth’s Mantle

    by Ekaterina A. Matrosova, Andrey V. Bobrov, Luca Bindi ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides an analysis of an actual problem of the evolution of deep matter under the conditions of the upper mantle, transition zone, and uppermost lower mantle. This issue has a fundamental importance in geochemistry, petrology, mineralogy, and crystalochemistry of the mantle, at different depths. The authors discuss new experimental research on the composition and conditions of the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • Environmental Organic Chemistry

    by Philip M. Gschwend, Dieter M. Imboden, Rene P. Schwarzenbach ...
    Examines in a pedagogical way all pertinent molecular and macroscopic processes that govern the distribution and fate of organic chemicals in the environment and provides simple modeling tools to quantitatively describe these processes and their interplay in a given environmental systemTreats fundamental aspects of chemistry, physics, and mathematical modeling as applied to environmentally ... Read more

    $138.00 USD

  • Environanotechnology

    Edited by Maohong Fan, C.P. Huang, Alan E. Bland, Zhonglin Wang, Rachid Slimane, Ian G. Wright ...
    Understanding and utilizing the interactions between environment and nanoscale materials is a new way to resolve the increasingly challenging environmental issues we are facing and will continue to face. Environanotechnology is the nanoscale technology developed for monitoring the quality of the environment, treating water and wastewater, as well as controlling air pollutants. Therefore, the ... Read more

    $148.99 USD

  • Handbook of Clay Science

    by Faïza Bergaya, G. Lagaly ...
    Series Book 5 - Developments in Clay Science
    The first edition of the Handbook of Clay Science published in 2006 assembled the scattered literature on the varied and diverse aspects that make up the discipline of clay science. The topics covered range from the fundamental structures (including textures) and properties of clays and clay minerals, through their environmental, health and industrial applications, to their analysis and ... Read more

    $198.99 USD

  • Handbook of Clay Science

    Edited by B.K.G. Theng, G. Lagaly, Faïza Bergaya ...
    Series Book 1 - Developments in Clay Science
    The first general texts on clay mineralogy and the practical applications of clay, written by R.E. Grim, were published some 40-50 years ago. Since then, a vast literature has accumulated but this information is scattered and not always accessible. The Handbook of Clay Science aims at assembling the scattered literature on the varied and diverse aspects that make up the discipline of clay science. ... Read more

    $215.99 USD

  • Trace Metals in Aquatic Systems

    by Robert P. Mason ...
    This book provides a detailed examination of the concentration, form and cycling of trace metals and metalloids through the aquatic biosphere, and has sections dealing with the atmosphere, the ocean, lakes and rivers. It discusses exchanges at the water interface (air/water and sediment/water) and the major drivers of the cycling, concentration and form of trace metals in aquatic systems. The ... Read more

    $125.00 USD

  • Origins and Evolution of Life

    An Astrobiological Perspective

    Edited by Muriel Gargaud, Purificación López-Garcìa, Hervé Martin ...
    Series Book 6 - Cambridge Astrobiology
    Devoted to exploring questions about the origin and evolution of life in our Universe, this highly interdisciplinary book brings together a broad array of scientists. Thirty chapters assembled in eight major sections convey the knowledge accumulated and the richness of the debates generated by this challenging theme. The text explores the latest research on the conditions and processes that led to ... Read more

    $108.99 USD

  • Handbook of Environmental Isotope Geochemistry

    Edited by Mark Baskaran ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Applications of radioactive and stable isotopes have revolutionized our understanding of the Earth and near-earth surface processes. The utility of the isotopes are ever-increasing and our sole focus is to bring out the applications of these isotopes as tracers and chronometers to a wider audience so that they can be used as powerful tools to solve environmental problems. New developments in this ... Read more

    $332.09 USD

  • Biophysico-Chemical Processes of Anthropogenic Organic Compounds in Environmental Systems

    Edited by Baoshan Xing, Pan Ming Huang, Nicola Senesi ...
    Series Book 4 - Wiley Series Sponsored by IUPAC in Biophysico-Chemical Processes in Environmental Systems
    In contrast to the classical books which largely focus on separate, individual physicochemical and biological aspects, this book aims to integrate the frontiers of knowledge on the fundamentals and the impact of physicochemical and biological interactions and processes of AOCs in soil, sediment, water and air. The specific objectives of this book are to address: (1) fundamental biophysico-chemical ... Read more

    $212.00 USD

  • Genesis - In The Beginning

    Precursors of Life, Chemical Models and Early Biological Evolution

    Edited by Joseph Seckbach ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Genesis – In The Beginning deals with the origin and diversity of Life and early biological evolution and discusses the question of where (hot or cold sources) and when the beginning of Life took place. Among the sections are chapters dealing with prebiotic chemical processes and considering self-replication of polymers in mineral habitats. One chapter is dedicated to the photobiological regime on ... Read more

    $188.99 USD