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This text is written for a course that deals with the principles and applications of modern analytical instruments. Emphasis is placed upon the theoretical basis of each type of instrument, its optimal area of application, its sensitivity, its precision, and its limitations. The text also introduces students to elementary integrated circuitry, microprocessors and computers, and treatment of analytical data.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 1 Introduction
• Section I Measurement Basics
• 2 Electrical Components and Circuits
• 3 Operational Amplifiers in Chemical Instrumentation
• 4 Digital Electronics and Microcomputers
• 5 Signals and Noise
• Instrumental Methods in Action: Assessing the Authenticity of the Vinland Map
• Section II Atomic Spectroscopy
• 6 An Introduction to Spectrometric Methods
• 7 Components of Optical Instruments
• 8 An Introduction to Optical Atomic Spectrometry
• 9 Atomic Absorption and Atomic Fluorescence Spectrometry
• 10 Atomic Emission Spectrometry
• 11 Atomic Mass Spectrometry
• 12 Atomic X-Ray Spectrometry
• Instrumental Methods in Action: Title
• Section III Molecular Spectroscopy
• 13 An Introduction to Ultraviolet/Visible Molecular Absorption Spectrometry
• 14 Applications of Ultraviolet/Visible Molecular Absorption Spectrometry
• 15 Molecular Luminescence Spectrometry
• 16 An Introduction to Infrared Spectrometry
• 17 Applications of Infrared Spectrometry
• 18 Raman Spectroscopy
• 19 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
• 20 Molecular Mass Spectrometry
• 21 Surface Characterization by Spectroscopy and Microscopy
• Instrumental Methods in Action: Title
• Section IV Electroanalytical Chemistry
• 22 Introduction to Electroanalytical Chemistry
• 23 Potentiometry
• 24 Coulometry
• 25 Voltammetry
• Instrumental Methods in Action: Title
• Section V Separation Methods
• 26 An Introduction to Chromatographic Separations
• 27 Gas Chromatography
• 28 High-Performance Liquid Chromatography
• 29 Supercritical Fluid Chromatography and Extraction
• 30 Capillary Electrophoresis and Capillary Electrochromatography
• Instrumental Methods in Action: Title
• Section VI Miscellaneous Methods
• 31 Thermal Methods
• 32 Radiochemical Methods
• 33 Automated Methods of Analysis
• 34 Particle Size Analysis
• Instrumental Methods in Action: Title
• Appendices
• Appendix 1 Evaluation of Analytical Data
• Appendix 2 Some Standard and Formal Electrode Potentials
• Appendix 3 Compounds for Preparing Standard Solutions of Some Common Elements
• Appendix 4 Common Acronyms Encountered in Chemical Instrumentation
• Answers to Selected Problems
• Index