Amazon.com description: Product Description: With the wide range of techniques and options available for chemical analysis, and the great potential for today's methods to be superceded by tomorrow's technology, a how-to book on chemical analysis would be impractical, unnecessary, and quickly out of date. Yet professionals in the field need a resource detailing the strengths and limitations of such analyses if they are to use analytical results in an intelligent and informed manner.

Chemical Analysis of Contaminated Land explores how to choose the appropriate analyses, provides relevant strategies for carrying out analyses, and discusses methods of interpreting results within the new risk-based legislative framework for contaminated land. The book addresses all aspects of analysis, from delivery of samples to the laboratory to the presentation of results to clients. The editors provide concentrated, tabular data, highlight problems of analysis, and propose solutions. Special features include in-depth coverage of asbestos and techniques of ecotoxicity measurement.

Designed for use by chemists, scientists, or engineers responsible for analyzing potentially contaminated soil or water samples, Chemical Analysis of Contaminated Land is written in a style that helps both new and experienced practitioners. This book distills the expertise and experience of the authors to provide a one-stop resource on the chemical analysis of contaminated land.