"... this book is highly recommended for a broader scientific readership. It should not only find its place on the bookshelf of analytical chemists and 'speciation researchers' but can also serve as an excellent source of information for environmental scientists outside the specialised community." - Journal of Environmental Monitoring
Considerable recent research has focused on the topic of chemicalspeciation in the environment. It is increasingly realised that thedistribution, mobility and biological availability of chemicalelements depend not simply on their concentrations but, critically, on the forms in which they occur in natural systems. Continuingdevelopments in analytical chemistry have made speciationpracticable even where analytes are present at trace levels (as isoften the case in natural samples).
In the second edition of this book, the expertise of scientistsinvolved in chemical speciation in various fields have been broughttogether to provide an overview of the current status of speciationscience and indicate how the field may develop in the future.
