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Recent years have seen advances in instrumentation and chemical analytical methods. Environmental scientists and analytical chemist working in this field must now be familiar with a very wide range of techniques and applications. This text aims to introduce the major instrumental methods currently being used. Experts from around the world have been selected to contribute sections on the basis of their reputation in environmental chemistry. Each chapter describes in detail important instrumental methods of pollutant analysis including chromatography, spectroscopy, X-ray methods and electrochemical and radiochemical techniques. The book also surveys sampling methods used to obtain environmental material for analysis and the statistical methods used to analyze and present environmental data. This handbook should be useful to analytical and environmental chemists and scientists as well as radiochemists, chromatographers and those involved with environmental monitoring and instrument manufacture. Students should also benefit from the information contained in this volume.