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Summary: The essential work to understanding aerosols
Review: As the New Testament is to Christians and the Torah is to Jews, this work is the essential literature to understanding aerosols and aerosol technology. You enter as a novice with human explanations of terms, proceed through most of the mundate and requisite statistics, and then are allowed to explode through the fascination that is aerosols. Through comprehensive, yet comprehensable language, this is the first and only way to understand what has previously been an elusive and disperse knowledge. Each edition incorporates current tech and thought. A best, first.
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Summary: The essential work to understanding aerosols
Review: As the New Testament is to Christians and the Torah is to Jews, this work is the essential literature to understanding aerosols and aerosol technology. You enter as a novice with human explanations of terms, proceed through most of the mundate and requisite statistics, and then are allowed to explode through the fascination that is aerosols. Through comprehensive, yet comprehensable language, this is the first and only way to understand what has previously been an elusive and disperse knowledge. Each edition incorporates current tech and thought. A best, first.
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Summary: Excellent guide to aerosol behavior in various applications!
Review: Excellent guide to particle behaviour...I am involved in research where an indepth understanding of aerosol behavior is a must in electrostatic powder coating and separation. This is an excellent resource and should be a part of your professional collection.
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Summary: Please write one more, Dr. Hinds!
Review: How is the aerosol from hair spray related to a carbonated drink or a sponge? It all has to do with what is finely dispersed and what medium suspends this dispersion. With these provoking thoughts, William C. Hinds leads us into the partculars of suspended particles: aerosols. Dr. Hinds has accomplished an amazing feat here. Understanding this complicated field requires familiarity with at least one year of college calculus. With an eloquent writing style laced with differentials and derivations, he describes the various phenomena of aerosols, including particle settling speed, respirability, light scattering, dust explosions, and much more. His description of aerosol measurement techniques is interesting and detailed. (You would be surprised at how complicated are the physics of filtration!) What is truly special, however, is his ability to effectively describe in words what the equations are saying. You can grasp a feel for the phenomena described even if some of the differentials leave you stumped. With problems (and their answers--NOT solutions!) at the end of each chapter, this is an ideal text for graduate students in public health, engineering, industrial hygiene, or toxicology. Professionals working in these fields, however, will find the book a valuable reference. The text is filled with helpful tables and figures, and the more rigorous proofs of important formulas are presented in appendices. References end each chapter. Already 15 years old, the book remains a benchmark. Oh--and the sponge? The disperse phase is air, the suspending medium is solid. Hmm.
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Summary: Whats new in the second edition.
Review: The long-awaited Second Edition of Aerosol Technology has arrived. Published in January 1999 and it is bigger and better than ever. It has been updated, expanded, and refined to reflect new information, changes in technology, and growth in the field. It uses dual units with SI units as the primary units and cgs units as secondary units. A new chapter on bioaerosols and new sections on resuspension, transport losses, time-of-flight instruments, respiratory deposition models, and fractal characterization of particles have been added. The chapter on atmospheric aerosols has been expanded to include sections on background aerosols, urban aerosols, and global effects. There are 26 new calculation examples and 30 new problems. The number of pages has increased from 424 to 483. The objective has remained the same: to provide a clear, understandable, and useful basic textbook on the science and technology of aerosols for environmental professionals, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates. It is also a practical and useful reference book for students and professionals involved in occupational hygiene, air quality, radiation protection, inhalation toxicology, therapeutic administration of drugs by inhalation, contamination control in the microelectronics industry, and environmental science and engineering. It contains numerous empirical equations, figures, and tables to facilitate the application of aerosol science to these fields. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the field of aerosol technology. It starts with simple aerosol mechanics and progresses in a logical way to more complicated phenomena. It features a careful development and exposition of the basic principles of aerosol science, such as particle motion, forces on particles, and the interaction of particles with the suspending gas, other particles, and electromagnetic radiation. At each stage, application of these principles to aerosol measurement is given along with the discussion of basic concepts. More complicated applications, such as filtration, respiratory deposition, sampling, atmospheric aerosols, bioaerosols, and the production of test aerosols are treated in separate chapters. The book emphasizes physical analysis more than mathematical analysis and develops subject areas in a clear and understandable way. The book contains about 200 figures, 80 tables, 40 examples, 180 problems with answers, a list of principal symbols, and 16 appendices. Current errata can be found at: http://www.ph.ucla.edu/coeh/facultyframe.html Click on "William C. Hinds, ScD." Click on "Click here for corrections. . . ."
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