Groundwater Primer - Fate of Contaminants

  1. Introduction
    2.
  2. Sources of Pollution
    3.
  3. Types of Contaminants
    4.
  4. Transport of Contaminants
    5.
  5. Fate of Contaminants
    6.
    1. Partitioning
      1. Chemical Reactions in Soils
      2. Kow
      3. Koc
    2. Sorption
      1. Sorption Processes
      2. adsorption vs absorption
      3. Freundlich isotherm
      4. Langmuir isotherm
      5. retardation factor
      6. kinetics of sorption
    3. solubility
    4. partitioning
    5. Henry's law
    6. fugacity
    7. oxidation-reduction
    8. complexation
    9. hydrolysis
    10. Eh-pH diagrams
    11. pC-pH diagrams
  6. Models
    7.
  7. Remediation
    8.
  8. Monitoring
    9.
  9. Legal Aspects
    10.
  10. Miscellaneous
    11.
  11. Index
    12.

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