Eugene Meyer earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida in 1964. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Instituut voor Kernphysisch Onderzoek, Amsterdam, The Netherlands in 1965. He served as Professor of Chemistry with tenure at Lewis University, Lockport, Illinois from 1965 to 1979. He joined the technical staff of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5 in 1979, serving as Regional Expert in the Chemistry of Hazardous Waste and Chief of the Technical Programs Section of the Hazardous Waste Division. In 1982, he became President of Meyer Environmental Consultants, Inc., where during the course of his work to the present, he consulted with attorneys at the U.S. Department of Justice and private law firms or served in the capacity of an expert witness on more than 200 legal matters concerned with the transportation, treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous substances. He is now retired and lives with his wife in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Introduction | |
Features of Matter and Energy | |
Flammable Gases and Flammable Liquids | |
Chemical Forms of Matter | |
Principles of Chemical Reactions | |
Use of the DOT Hazardous Materials Regulations by Emergency | |
Chemistry of Some Common Elements | |
Chemistry of Some Corrosive Materials | |
Chemistry of Some Water-Reactive Substances | |
Chemistry of Some Toxic Substances | |
Chemistry of Some Oxidizers | |
Chemistry of Some Hazardous Organic Compounds I | |
Chemistry of Some Hazardous Organic Compounds II | |
Chemistry of Some Polymeric Materials | |
Chemistry of Some Explosives | |
Radioactive Materials | |
Table of Elements and Atomic Weights | |
Glossary | |
Subject Index Hazardous Materials | |
Index | |
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