Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This text prepares students to use equipment they will encounter in professional labs in a variety of fields. Major topics covered include: statistics, volumetric analysis, spectrophotometry, acid-based equilibrium, electrochemistry and potentiometry, chromatography and electrophoresis, gravimetric and combustion analysis, and atomic spectroscopy. Lab experiments are included to give students hands-on practice using what they have learnt in the text.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Chapter 0 The Analytical Process Cocaine Use?
• Ask the River
• 0-1 The Analytical Chemist's Job
• 0-2 General Steps in a Chemical Analysis
• Box 0-1 Constructing a Representative Sample
• Chapter 1 Chemical Measurements Biochemical Measurements with a Nanoelectrode
• 1-1 SI Units and Prefixes
• Box 1-1 Exocytosis of Neurotransmitters
• 1-2 Conversion Between Units
• 1-3 Chemical Concentrations
• 1-4 Preparing Solutions
• 1-5 The Equilibrium Constant
• Chapter 2 Tools of the Trade A Quartz-Crystal Sensor with an Imprinted Layer for Yeast Cells
• 2-1 Safety, Waste Disposal, and Green Chemistry
• 2-2 Your Lab Notebook
• Box 2-1 Dan's Lab Notebook Entry
• 2-3 The Analytical Balance
• 2-4 Burets
• 2-5 Volumetric Flasks
• 2-6 Pipets and Syringes
• 2-7 Filtration
• 2-8 Drying
• 2-9 Calibration of Volumetric Glassware
• 2-10 Methods of Sample Preparation Reference Procedure: Calibrating a 50-mL buret
• Chapter 3 Math Toolkit Experimental Error
• 3-1 Significant Figures
• 3-2 Significant Figures in Arithmetic
• 3-3 Types of Error
• Box 3-1 What Are Standard Reference Materials?
• Box 3-2 Case Study: Systematic Error in Ozone Measurement
• 3-4 Propagation of Uncertainty
• 3-5 Introducing Spreadsheets
• 3-6 Graphing in Excel
• Chapter 4 Statistics Is My Red Blood Cell Count High Today?
• 4-1 The Gaussian Distribution
• 4-2 Student's t
• Box 4-1 Analytical Chemistry and the Law
• 4-3 Grubbs Test for an Outlier
• 4-4 Finding the "Best" Straight Line
• 4-5 Constructing a Calibration Curve
• 4-6 A Spreadsheet for Least Squares
• Chapter 5 Quality Assurance and Calibration Methods The Need for Quality Assurance
• 5-1 Basics of Quality Assurance
• Box 5-1 Control Charts
• 5-2 Validation of an Analytical Procedure
• 5-3 Standard Addition
• 5-4 Internal Standards
• Chapter 6 Good Titrations The Earliest Known Buret
• 6-1 Principles of Volumetric Analysis
• 6-2 Titration Calculations
• 6-3 Chemistry in a Fishtank
• Box 6-1 Studying a Marine Ecosystem
• 6-4 Solubility Product
• Box 6-2 The Logic of Approximations
• 6-5 Titration of a Mixture
• 6-6 Titrations Involving Silver Ion Demonstration
• 6-1 Fajans Titration
• Chapter 7 Gravimetric and Combustion Analysis
• The Geologic Time Scale and Gravimetric Analysis
• 7-1 Examples of Gravimetric Analysis
• Box 7-1 Shorthand for Organic Structures
• 7-2 Precipitation Demonstration
• 7-1 Colloids and Dialysis
• 7-3 Examples of Gravimetric Calculations
• 7-4 Combustion Analysis
• Chapter 8 Introducing Acids and Bases Acid Rain
• 8-1 What Are Acids and Bases?
• 8-2 Relation Between [H+], [OH-], and pH
• 8-3 Strengths of Acids and Bases Demonstration
• 8-1 HCl Fountain
• 8-4 pH