Environmental Chemistry

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This course is an advanced quantitative and qualitative study of the sources of environmental pollutants, their chemical reactions and mechanism of formation, their fate in the environment, and ultimately their impact on environmental systems and services including ozone cycling, ozone hole formation, smog formation, heavy metals in drinking water, energy, and global climate change. This course will review scientific literature to identify advances in science and technology to combat these environmental problems. The course is aimed principally at chemistry majors, but other science majors that desire a chemical understanding of the environment and meet the course prerequisites are welcome. This course satisfies the global perspectives (GP) requirement at Rider University. Recommended courses include MTH 210 and CHE 250 .