September 20, 2020
3. Environmental Chemistry - From Fate to Exposure
This chapter is the third chapter of 'Toxicology, an open online textbook' . The textbook aims at covering the field in its full width, including aspects of environmental chemistry, ecotoxicology, toxicology and risk assessment. In this chapter, we first introduce the most important compartments and their most important properties and processes that determine the behaviour of chemical contaminants: the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, sediment, soil, groundwater and biota.