| Description |
xvii, 719 pages, 145 pages, 12 unnumbered of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 0 The Analytical Process -- Opener: The “Most Important” Environmental Data Set of the 20th Century -- 0-1 Charles David Keeling and the Measurement of Atmospheric CO2 -- 0-2 The Analytical Chemist's Job -- 0-32 General Steps in a Chemical Analysis -- Box 0-1 Constructing a Representative Sample 1 Chemical Measurements -- Opener: Biochemical Measurements with a Nanoelectrode -- 1-1 SI Units -- 1-2 Chemical Concentrations -- 1-3 Preparing Solutions -- 1-4 Stoichiometry Calculations for Gravimetric Analysis -- 7-1 Introduction to Titrations -- Box 1-1 Reagent Chemicals and Primary Standards -- 7-2 Titration Calculations 2 Tools of the Trade -- Opener: Quartz Crystal Microbalance in Medical Diagnosis -- 2-1 Safe, Ethical Handling of Chemicals and Waste -- 2-2 The Lab Notebook -- 2-3 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 Introduction to Microsoft Excel® -- 2-11 Graphing with Microsoft Excel® -- Reference Procedure: Calibrating a 50-mL Buret 3 Experimental Error -- Opener: Experimental Error -- 3-1 Significant Figures -- 3-2 Significant Figures in Arithmetic -- 3-3 Types of Error -- Box 3-1 Case Study in Ethics: Systematic Error in Ozone Measurement -- 3-4 Propagation of Uncertainty from Random Error -- Box 3-2 Keeling's Exquisitely Precise Measurement of CO2 -- 3-5 Propagation of Uncertainty from Systematic Error 4 Statistics -- Opener: Is My Red Blood Cell Count High Today? -- 4-1 Gaussian Distribution -- 4-2 Confidence Intervals -- 4-3 Comparison of Means with Student's t -- Box 4-1 Choosing the Null Hypothesis in Epidemiology -- 4-4 F Test -- 4-5 t Tests with a Spreadsheet -- 4-6 Grubbs Test for an Outlier -- 4-7 |
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The Method of Least Squares -- 4-8 Calibration Curves -- Box 4-2 Using a Nonlinear Calibration Curve -- 4-9 A Spreadsheet for Least Squares 5 Quality Assurance and Calibration Methods -- Opener: The Need for Quality Assurance -- 5-1 Basics of Quality Assurance -- Box 5-1 Control Charts -- 5-2 Method Validation -- Box 5-2 The Horwitz Trumpet: Variation in Interlaboratory Precision -- 5-3 Standard Addition -- 5-4 Internal Standards -- 5-5 Efficiency in Experimental Design 6 Chemical Equilibrium -- Opener: Chemical Equilibrium in the Environment -- 6-1 The Equilibrium Constant -- 6-2 Equilibrium and Thermodynamics -- 6-3 Solubility Product -- Box 6-1 Solubility is Governed by More than the Solubility Product -- Demonstration 6-1 Common Ion Effect -- 6-4 Complex Formation -- Box 6-2 Notation for Formation Constants -- 6-5 Protic Acids and Bases -- 6-6 pH -- 6-7 Strengths of Acids and Bases -- Demonstration 6-2 The HCl Fountain -- Box 6-3 The Strange Behavior of Hydrofluoric Acid -- Box 6-4 Carbonic Acid 7 Activity and the Systematic Treatment of Equilibrium -- Opener: Hydrated Ions -- 7-1 The Effect of Ionic Strength on Solubility of Salts -- Demonstration 7-1 Effect of Ionic Strength on Ion Dissociation -- Box 7-1 Salts with Ions of Charge = |
| Summary |
This book continues to be the most widely used textbook for analytical chemistry. It offers consistently modern portrait of the tools and techniques of chemical analysis, incorporating real data, spreadsheets and a wealth of applications, all presented in a witty, personable style that engage students without compromising the principles etc |
| Notes |
Previous ed. published: 2007 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Chemistry, Analytic -- Quantitative.
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| LC no. |
2009943186 |
| ISBN |
1429218150 (alk. paper) |
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9781429218153 (alk. paper) |
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