ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

TO THE INSTRUCTOR.

PART 1: PRELIMINARY EXERCISES.

1. How to Keep a Legally Defensible Laboratory Notebook.

2. Statistical Analysis.

3. Field Sampling Equipment for Environmental Samples.

PART 2: EXPERIMENTS FOR AIR SAMPLES.

4. Determination of Henry’s Law Constants.

5. Global Warming: Determining If a Gas Is Infrared Active.

6. Monitoring the Presence of Hydrocarbons in Air around Gasoline Stations.

PART 3: EXPERIMENTS FOR WATER SAMPLES.

7. Determination of an Ion Balance for a Water Sample.

8. Measuring the Concentration of Chlorinated Pesticides in Water Samples.

9. Determination of Chloride, Bromide, and Fluoride in Water Samples.

10. Analysis of Nickel Solutions by Ultraviolet–Visible Spectrometry.

PART 4: EXPERIMENTS FOR HAZARDOUS WASTE.

11. Determination of the Composition of Unleaded Gasoline Using Gas Chromatography.

12. Precipitation of Metals from Hazardous Waste.

13. Determination of the Nitroaromatics in Synthetic Wastewater from a Munitions Plant.

14. Determination of a Surrogate Toxic Metal in a Simulated Hazardous Waste Sample.

15. Reduction of Substituted Nitrobenzenes by Anaerobic Humic Acid Solutions.

PART 5: EXPERIMENTS FOR SEDIMENT AND SOIL SAMPLES.

16. Soxhlet Extraction and Analysis of a Soil or Sediment Sample Contaminated with n-Pentadecane.

17. Determination of a Clay–Water Distribution Coefficient for Copper.

PART 6: WET EXPERIMENTS.

18. Determination of Dissolved Oxygen in Water Using the Winkler Method.

19. Determination of the Biochemical Oxygen Demand of Sewage Influent.

20. Determination of Inorganic and Organic Solids in Water Samples: Mass Balance Exercise.

21. Determination of Alkalinity of Natural Waters.

22. Determination of Hardness in a Water Sample.

PART 7: FATE AND TRANSPORT CALCULATIONS.

23. pC–pH Diagrams: Equilibrium Diagrams for Weak Acid and Base Systems.

24. Fate and Transport of Pollutants in Rivers and Streams.

25. Fate and Transport of Pollutants in Lake Systems.

26. Fate and Transport of Pollutants in Groundwater Systems.

27. Transport of Pollutants in the Atmosphere.

28. Biochemical Oxygen Demand and the Dissolved Oxygen Sag Curve in a Stream: Streeter–Phelps Equation.

APPENDIX A: Periodic Table.

INDEX.