Jun 30, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024

EVT 1200 - Introduction to Environmental Chemistry


Environmental chemistry as applied to aquatic, atmospheric, soil, and hazardous waste systems. Topics include environmental chemical cycles; aquatic, atmospheric, and soil chemistry; environmental chemistry of hazardous wastes; and toxicology.

Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture, 2.0 laboratory
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Calculate results using the ideal gas law.
  • Describe the basic units of measure - temperature, pressure, time, mass, speed.
  • Perform stochiometric calculations on basic chemical reactions and equations.
  • Understand the basic concepts of gas.
  • Understand the fundamental aspects of atmospheric chemistry and air pollution.
  • Understand the fundamental aspects of biological chemistry.
  • Understand the fundamental aspects of hazardous wastes and hazardous waste treatment.
  • Understand the fundamental aspects of industrial hygiene chemistry.
  • Understand the fundamental aspects of organic chemistry.
  • Understand the fundamental aspects of water chemistry, water pollution, and water treatment.
  • Understand the properties of matter - atoms, molecules, moles, gases, liquids, solids.


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