Modern Analytical Chemistry

by David Harvey

Book Overview

This introductory text covers both traditional and contemporary topics relevant to analytical chemistry. Its flexible approach allows instructors to choose their favourite topics of discussion from... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072375477
• ISBN13: 9780072375473
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
• Length: 798 Pages
• Weight: 3.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.3" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

excellent - unlike all the other quant. books

This is a very fine book for analytical courses. It's different than the others in that it emphasizes sampling, optimizing methods, analyzing & validating data, handling interferents, stats, experimental design, calibration and QA. In doing so it does not neglect the traditional topics like gravimetry, titrimetry, solvent extraction, equilibrium chemistry and so on. It covers alot of material and would be sufficient to completely replace a separate instrumental analysis book for upper-level courses if supplemented properly. It covers everything a beginning analyst should know with clear definitions, explanations and thoughtful examples. It has many end-of-chapter problems, suggested readings and references. Perhaps too many of these were included for a basic text. But on the other hand it does make it useful as a reference and for professors when designing courses. The main problem with it is that many chapters are too long (e.g. the chapter on Evaluating Analytical Data) and these should been broken up into more manageable bits. I also don't like how modern analytical textbooks include basic quantitative analysis and instrumental methods all-in-one. For 2 reasons: (1) the books become needlessly heavy and then binding becomes loose, pages fall out and (2) much material is never read since often a separate instrumental analysis book is used for upper-year courses. Quant books shouldn't try to be all things to all people - just focus on the basics, please. (An ideal, basic text is Exploring Chemical Analysis by Daniel C. Harris, ISBN 1429201479) Too bad this book is OOP but you can get a revised and extended second edition in PDF at the author's website at Depauw U. TOC: 1. Introduction 2. Basic Tools of Analytical Chemistry 3. The Language of Analytical Chemistry 4. Evaluating Analytical Data 5. Calibrations, Standardizations, and Blank Corrections 6. Equilibrium Chemistry 7. Obtaining and Preparing Samples for Analysis 8. Gravimetric Methods of Analysis 9. Titrimetric Methods of Analysis 10. Spectroscopic Methods of Analysis 11. Electrochemical Methods of Analysis 12. Chromatographic and Electrophoretic Methods 13. Kinetic Methods of Analysis 14. Developing a Standard Method 15. Quality Assurance Appendices Appendix 1A Single-Sided Normal Distribution Appendix 1B t-Table Appendix 1C F-Table Appendix 1D Critical Values for Q-Test Appendix 1E Random Number Table Appendix 2 Recommended Reagents for Preparing Primary Standards Appendix 3A Solubility Products Appendix 3B Acid Dissociation Constants Appendix 3C Metal-Ligand Formation Constants Appendix 3D Standard Reduction Potentials Appendix 3E Selected Polarographic Half-Wave Potentials Appendix 4 Balancing Redox Reactions Appendix 5 Review of Chemical Kinetics Appendix 6 Countercurrent Separations Appendix 7 Answers to Selected Problems Glossary Index