Environmental Pollutants

1. Front Matter

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2. Welcoming Remarks

   1. Welcoming Remarks

      • J. Lowell Orbison

      Pages 1-2

3. Welcome from the Department of Radiation Biology and Biophysics

   1. Welcome from the Department of Radiation Biology and Biophysics

      • Paul L. LaCelle

      Pages 3-3

4. Specification of Analytical Problems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. Air Pollutant Monitoring: Or How to Improve on an Ouija Board

      • James P. Lodge Jr.

      Pages 7-18

   3. The Strategy for Cleaning up Our Waters

      • Robert L. Collin

      Pages 19-35

   4. European Aspects of Environmental Research and Legislation

      • F. Geiss, Ph. Bourdeau, M. Carpentier

      Pages 37-51

   5. The Whole Animal as an Assay System

      • Bernard Weiss

      Pages 53-66

5. More Familiar Principles

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67

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   2. Analysis of Atmospheric Pollutants of Possible Importance in Human Carcinogenesis

      • Eugene Sawicki

      Pages 69-101

   3. Ion-Selective Electrodes

      • Harvey B. Herman

      Pages 103-120

   4. Ultratrace Metals Analysis by Electrothermal Atomization Atomic Absorption — Present Technology and Potential Developments

      • Marti Bancroft

      Pages 121-133

   5. Tanker Tragedies: Identifying the Source and Determining the Fate of Petroleum in the Marine Environment

      • Chris W. Brown, Patricia F. Lynch

      Pages 135-148

   6. Water Pollution Studies Using Raman Spectroscopy

      • Laurent Van Haverbeke, Chris W. Brown

      Pages 149-169

6. Methods for Field Use

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171

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   2. Passive Sampling of Ambient and Work Place Atmospheres by Means of Gas Permeation

      • Philip W. West

      Pages 173-189

   3. The Continuous Measurement of Sulfur-Containing Aerosols by Flame Photometry: A Laboratory Study

      • James J. Huntzicker, Robert S. Hoffman

      Pages 191-209

   4. Tunable Diode Laser Detection of Air Pollutants

      • E. D. Hinkley

      Pages 211-220

   5. An Evaluation of Lasers for Ambient Air Pollution Measurement

      • Lucian W. Chaney

      Pages 221-238

7. High Spatial Resolution Microprobe Methods

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 239-239

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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.

• X-ray
• biology
• electron
• energy
• environment
• environmental pollution
• environmental science
• laser
• mass spectrometry
• metals
• radiation
• spectroscopy

• University of Rochester, Rochester, USA

  Taft Y. Toribara, James R. Coleman, Barton E. Dahneke, Isaac Feldman

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