Content: The course is designed to equip students with an overview of soil chemistry, inorganic soil components, chemistry of soil organic matter, soil solution-solid phase equilibria, sorption phenomena on soils and ion exchange processes, kinetics of soil chemical processes, redox chemistry of soil, the chemistry of soil acidity, and the chemistry of saline and sodic soils.

Objective:To expose students to the fundamental concepts of soil chemistry so as to apply them to environmentally significant reactions in the soil.

Reading materials

1. Brown, H.J.M. 1979. Environmental Chemistry of the Elements. Academy Press, London.
2. Manahan, S.E. 1991. Environmental Chemistry. Lewis Publishers, Chelsea, Michigan, USA.
3. O’Neill, P. 1993. Environmental Chemistry. 2nd Edn. Chapman & Hall London.
4. Richardson, M.L. 1991. Chemistry, Agriculture and the Environment. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge.
5. Sparks, D.L. 1995. Environmental Soil Chemistry. Academic Press Inc.
6. Sposito, G. 1989. The Chemistry of Soils. Oxford Univ. Press