For senior/graduate level courses in Instrumental Analysis.This text provides a rigorous, yet readable, introduction to instrumental methods of chemical analysis--providing a greater emphasis on principles and a balance of topics closer to contemporary analytical practice than other texts. It features a large number of examples of real-world applications from current journals--showing how the principles and practices of analytical chemistry are used to produce answers to questions in all areas of scientific study and practice. The text also features a strong emphasis on teaching students analytical chemistry problem-solving skills.
1. Preliminaries. 2. Statistical Tests and Error Analysis. 3. Sampling. 4. Sample Treatments, Interferences, and Standards. 5. Sample Size and Major, Minor, Trace, and Ultratrace Components. 6. Electronics and Noise. 7. Electrochemical Methods. 8. Introduction to Spectrometry. 9. Spectrometry for Elemental Analysis. 10. Infrared and Raman Spectrometries: Vibrational Spectrometries. 11. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometry. 12. Mass Spectrometry. 13. General Introduction to Separations and Chromatography. 14. Liquid Chromatography. 15. Gas Chromatography and Supercritical Fluid Chromatography. 16. Separations by Applied Voltage: Electroseparations. 17. Digital Signal Acquisition and Signal Treatment. 18. Kinetic Methods. Appendices. Answers. Index.