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Here is a full understanding and correct application of scientific disciplines constituting the back-bone of aerosol technology. Gaining knowledge from this handbook can help eradicate the severe problems of pollution that exist today. The tremendous strides made in the environmental sciences relating the atmospheric contaminants, concentration levels of biological effects, the treatment of gaseous wastes, the forecasting of pollution and visibility levels, and the regulatory stance according to state and federal agencies for the control and reduced use of hazardous materials. The reasons given 25 years ago for the preparation of a Handbook on Aerosols remain unchanged today. If anything, the pollution problems cited by H.F. Johnstone in this preface to the 1950 publication are presently more severe. Atomic energy activities now constitute a larger part of the industrial domain because of the increase in nuclear-fueled power stations, fuel-recovery and processing operations, isotope manufacturer for industrial and medical applications, and prospecting for mineral and fossil fuels. The requirement that toxic particulates be removed from waste-gas streams at high efficiency levels and the need to monitor the ambient atmosphere are now extended to almost all nonnuclear industries. The tremendous strides made in the environmental sciences relating to the (1) identification and measurement of atmospheric contaminants, (2) the biological effects studies suggesting permissible concentration levels, (3) the development of advanced control systems for treating gaseous wastes, (4) the combination of aerosol and meteorological sciences to effect improved forecasting of pollution and visibility levels, and (5) the strong regulatory stance adopted by state and federal agencies with respect to control of source strengths and reduced use of hazardous material place extreme importance upon the full understanding and correct application of those scientific disciplines constituting t