Environmental Pollutants: Detection and Measurement

Toribara, Taft Y.; Coleman, James R.; Dahneke, Barton E.; Feldman, Isaac (eds)

ISBN 10: 0306363135 / ISBN 13: 9780306363139

Editore: Plenum Press, New York and London, 1978

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The jacket has loss to the head of the spine, the body of the book is immaculate. Proceedings of the conference held May 23-25, 1977, sponsored by the Dept. of Radiation Biology and Biophysics, University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y. Includes bibliographical references and index. xi, 500 pages, illustrated. Overseas customers please note that the book is heavy and will attract additional postal charges.

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• Titolo: Environmental Pollutants: Detection and Measurement
• Editore: Plenum Press, New York and London
• Data di pubblicazione: 1978
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0306363135
• ISBN 13: 9780306363139
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Very Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Good

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The principal emphasis of the Department of Radiation Biology and Biophysics is on biological problems. Techniques for measuring are considered very necessary but the development of them is usual­ ly left to someone else. Therefore it is a little unusual for the department to sponsor a conference which is devoted mostly to methodology. Environmental Pollution is a very popular topic now, and one notices that there are a number of scientific conferences devoted to the topic. Furthermore, part of every conference is devoted to measurements of pollutants. So the question becomes one of what should be different about our conference. To start with there are two unique features here: The first is the limited attendance which should provide more meaningful discussion; the second is the availability to the world of all the information in book form after the conference. We gave considerable thought to the contents of the conference which would take advantage of the unique features. Therefore, we decided to look to the future and present material here that is not in routine use. The search for pollutants has just begun, and their presence cannot be established without some means of detection. Many substances are not known to be toxic be­ cause no one has studied them. The necessary information can only be obtained if techniques for detection and measurement are avail­ able.