"A Wiley-Interscience publication." Includes bibliographical references and index.

Kinetics of chemical transformation in the environment / Alan Stone & James Morgan -- Formulation and calibration of environmental reaction kinetics; oxidations by aqueous photooxidants as an example / Jurg Hoigne -- Catalysis in aquatic environments / Michael Hoffmann -- Principles of linear free-energy and structure-activity relationships and their applications to the fate of chemicals in aquatic systems / Patrick Brezonik -- The kinetics of trace metal complexation: implications for metal reactivity in natural waters / Janet Hering & Francois M.M. Morel -- The frontier-molecular-orbital theory approach in geochemical processes / George Luther, III -- Chemical transformations of organic pollutants in the aquatic environment / Rene Schwarzenbach & Philip Gschwend -- Role of extracellular enzymatic reactions in natural waters / Neil Price & Francois M.M. Morel -- Ab initio quantum-mechanical calculations of surface reactions- a new era? / Antonio Lasaga & Gerald Gibbs. Adsorption kinetics of the complex mixture of organic solutes at model and natural phase boundaries / Bozene Cosovic -- Redox reactions of metal ions at mineral surfaces / Bernhard Wehrli -- Modeling of the dissolution of strained and unstrained multiple oxides: the surface speciation approach / Jacques Schott -- Dissolution of oxide and silicate minerals: rates depend on surface speciation / Werner Stumm & Erich Wieland -- Photoredox reactions at hydrous metal oxide surfaces: a surface coordination chemistry approach / Barbara Sulzberger -- Rate and mechanism of dissolution of carbonates in the system CaCO3-MgCO3 / Roland Wollast -- Kinetics of colloid chemical processes in aquatic systems / Charles O'Melia -- Kinetics of chemical weathering: a comparison of laboratory and field weathering rates / Jerald Schnoor -- Transport and kinetics in surficial processes / Abraham Lerman.