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Physical Chemical Properties & Environmental Fate Handbook CRCnetBASE 1999 brings together physical-chemical data for similarly structured groups of chemical substances, which influence their fate in the multimedia environment of air, water, soils, sediments, and resident biota. This continually updated CD-ROM synthesizes the comprehensive five-volume set of the Illustrated Handbook of Physical-Chemical Properties and Environmental Fate for Organic Chemicals, covering these topics: monoaromatic hydrocarbons, chlorobenzenes, and PCBs polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, polychlorinated dioxins, and dibenzofurans volatile organic chemicals oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur-containing compounds pesticides This product presents full references and methods of measurement, citing multiple values, and recommending the "best" value The task of assessing chemical fate locally, regionally, and globally is complicated by the large (and increasing) number of chemicals of potential concern, by uncertainties in their physical-chemical properties, and by lack of knowledge of prevailing environmental conditions. Reported values of properties are often in conflict. Some are measured accurately, some approximately, and some estimated by various correlation schemes from molecular structure. In some cases, units or chemical identity are wrongly reported. The user of such data thus has the difficulty of selecting the "best" or "right" values. Assisting the environmental scientist and engineer, Physical Chemical Properties & Environmental Fate Handbook CRCnetBASE 1999 contains compilations of physical-chemical property data for series of chemicals. This resource provides: guidance abut the properties of one substance from those of its homologs plots of systematic property variations to check the reported data an opportunity for interpolation and even extrapolation to estimate unreported properties of other homologs This unique feature of chem