environmental chemistry

Environmental Chemistry..

Environmental Chemistry..

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Introduction - The term environment refers to the natural elements that make up the Earth and surround living organisms, enabling life. The study of the environment and its proper conservation, has gained enormous importance in last three decades. The term environmental pollution has beco..

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Introduction - The term environment refers to the natural elements that make up the Earth and surround living organisms, enabling life. The study of the environment and its proper conservation, has gained enormous importance in last three decades. The term environmental pollution has beco..

The substances/species produced either by a natural source or by human activity, which cause an adverse effect on the environment on being in excess of a desirable limit, are termed as pollutants. Some common examples of pollutants are carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide, oxides of nitrogen, pollens, ..

The stratosphere or ozonosphere protects the Earth from the infrared/ultraviolet radiation coming from the Sun. Ozone absorbs U.V. radiations and prevents most of them in reaching the Earth's surface. O 3 O + O 2 O + O 3 O + O O 2 +..

This is the domain of living organisms in contact with atmosphere, hydrosphere as well as lithosphere. Man has begun to effect significant changes in his natural environment mainly after the advent of the Industrial revolution. The change in industrial and agricultural practices in the last 300 ye..