A Compendium of Geochemistry (eBook)

From Solar Nebula to the Human Brain

Yuan-Hui Li (Autor)

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2021
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22951-5 (ISBN)

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An ever-increasing concern over environmental degradation, together with recent technological advances, has spawned an explosion of chemical data for a wide variety of matter found on earth and in the solar system. Yuan-Hui Li's book offers professionals and students alike an indispensable up-to-date guide to geochemistry, bringing together new information on topics ranging from nucleosynthesis to crystal chemistry, from the systematics of chemical variation in the earth's core to the composition of complex organics. The objective is to illustrate the physicochemical principles and various natural processes that can explain observed compositional changes in natural substances. A general understanding of these principles and processes (including those pertaining to cosmology, geology, and biology) is essential, maintains the author, for deciphering and predicting transport pathways and final sinks of anthropogenic pollutants in our environment. The book focuses on compositional data and related references for such substances as solar photosphere, meteorites, igneous rocks, soils, sedimentary rocks, surficial waters, marine and terrestrial organisms (including humans), and aerosols. It emphasizes the use of original raw data as much as possible, and applies the statistical technique of factor analysis to elucidate any underlying interrelationships among chemical elements and given sample sets. Whenever applicable, simple chemical thermodynamic models are introduced to explain the observed partitioning of elements among different phases.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.4.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 164 line illus., 84 tables
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Schlagworte: Achondrite • Achondrites • Acid dissociation constant • Adsorption • Aerosol • Aerosols, Arctic and Antarctic • Affinity of aqueous cation to oxide • Albedo of celestial bodies • alkali basalt • alkaline earth metal • Allende mixing line • aluminosilicate • Amoeboid olivine rich inclusion (AOI) • Anorthite • Atomic mass units (amu) • atomic number • Basalt • Big Bang Theory • Biologically mediated reduction • Biophile and biophobe elements • Black Body Radiation • black shale • Calcite • Calcium aluminum rich inclusions (CAI) • Carbonaceous chondrite • Carbonaceous Chondrites • Carbonate • Carbonate rock • Carbon burning in stars • Chemical Bond • Chemical composition • chemical thermodynamics • Chemical weathering • Chondrite • Chondrule • chondrules • Chromite • coal • comets • Compatible and incompatible elements • continental crust • Core–mantle boundary • crude oil • Crust (geology) • Cumulative ionization energy • Dry and wet precipitations • eccentricity • eigenvalues • Electron Configuration • Enstatite chondrite • evaporites • explosive nucleosynthesis • Factor Analysis • Fecal pellets • Formation and evolution of the Solar System • Fossil fuel • Fractional crystallization (chemistry) • Fractional crystallization (geology) • Fractionation factor • Froelich (crater) • Fugacity • Galactic Clusters • Geochemistry • Glacial till • grand unified theories • Halite • Helium core flash • Hemipelagic mud • human body • Hydrogen burning in stars • Hydron (chemistry) • igneous rock • Ion • Ionic potential • Ionic radii • ionic radius • Ionization energy • Iron(III) oxide • Iron meteorite • Iron–nickel alloy • iron oxide • Island arc andesite • Isobar (nuclide) • Isotope geochemistry • Jupiter family of comets • Kaolinite • Kirkwood gaps • Komatiite • Kuiper Belt • L chondrite • Leucite • Lherzolite • Lithic fragment (geology) • Lithophile • Lustre (mineralogy) • Magic numbers of nuclides • Magnesite • Magnetite • Main sequence stars • Manganese nodule • Mantle Plume • Mass Spectrometry • Measurement • Meteorite • Mica schist • Mineral Dust • Mineralization (geology) • Mineralogy • montmorillonite • Neutrino • Neutron • neutron star • Nodule (geology) • Normalized planetary masses • Nucleosynthesis • oil shale • olivine • Organometallic Chemistry • Oxidative uptake • Oxide • Oxyanion • Oxygen burning in stars • parametrization • Peridotite • Perihelion • periodic table • Petroleum • phosphorite • Plate Tectonics • Porphyritic • Pyrite • pyroxene • Residence time (fluid dynamics) • Rhyolite • Rock (geology) • r-process • saprolite • seamount • seawater • Sediment • sedimentary rock • silicate • Soil • Solar mass • Source rock • Sulfide • sulfide minerals • Temperature • Trachyandesite • Transition metal • Valence (chemistry) • volcanic rock
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22951-1 / 0691229511
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22951-5 / 9780691229515