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Book Reuiews/Analytica
Chimica Acta 300 (1995) 335-340
working; Introduction to Data Processing; Software Engineering; and Laboratory Information Management Based Systems. A ‘Bibliography’ and ‘Subject Index with Abbreviations’ are included. The inclusion of abbreviations is very valuable although there are some abbreviations/acronyms omitted from the index either by unexplained design or default. The sections relating to interfacing devices and LIMS focus on aspects of computing that are directly relevant to the laboratory environment and automation therein. At its modest price the book provides very good value for money and could be read to advantage by many whose daily work brings them in contact with computers. The book would be particularly helpful to those who want to communicate with computing specialists or need to understand the specifications of computing facilities provided with new laboratory equipment.
MECA instrument. These chapters are a good guide for many readers to understand the characteristics of the technique. Chapters 4 to 7 comprehensively provide detailed analytical applications, such as emission spectra, interferences and their elimination, incorporation with other techniques and a great variety of derivatization reactions for indirect determination, which are useful for analytical chemists. The contributors surely succeeded in describing the usefulness of the technique as a detector. The monograph would absorb even more interest of readers and would encourage and stimulate research in this field, if those areas of immaturity were emphasized a little more.
John D. Green
Z.B. Alfassi (Ed.), Chemical Analysis by Nuclear Methods, Wiley, Chichester, 1994 (ISBN 0-471938343). xx + 556 pp. Price f90.00.
D.A. Stiles, A.C. Calokerinos and A. Townshend (Eds.), Flame Chemiluminescence Analysis by Molecular Emission Cavity Detection, Wiley, Chichester, 1994 (ISBN 0-471-94340-l). xiii + 205 pp. Price fiO.00. Molecular emission cavity analysis (MECA) is a flame chemiluminescence technique which is characterized by the use of a small cavity as the means for sample introduction into the flame and as the reaction space for all processes up to emission of radiation. The emitting species are restricted mainly to non-metals and metalloids, but gas generation systems or a great variety of derivatization reactions expand the technique to various analytical applications. The contributors are all key researchers who have developed and improved this technique, and consequently, the contents of the monograph are substantial. The first chapter describes briefly the circumstances of the development of MECA. The chapter describing the introduction and basic principles is systematically written, and comparison with other techniques makes the advantages of this technique clear. Chapter 3 “Instrumentation and automation” describes the simplicity and the easy assembly of a
Koichi Nakajima
As the contents list of this book indicates, the term “nuclear analysis” embraces a remarkably wide range of methods and techniques used in analysis. In this respect the book differs from a number of other recent books in the field. It probably gives the most comprehensive survey of all these methods. Also the subdivision is different, since it is not focussed on applications, but subdivided in 5 major parts, describing the physical background, the analysis by means of neutron sources, particle accelerators, radioactive sources and finally the use of radiotracers. Chapters 1 to 5 (part 1) give a classical and concise description of interaction with matter, detection and production of radiation and isotopes and finally some basic principles of radiation protection. The major interest of the book, however, is in the following 15 chapters, each of which, typically, comprises 20 to 35 pages. The principles, the equipment and the applicability of a group of nuclear methods of analysis are summarized in a clear and surveyable way, generally not overloaded with complicated figures or numerical data. Not only the more classical methods are treated, such as activation analysis, particle induced X-ray emission, isotope dilution and radio-immunoassay, but also less applied and more recently
Book Reuiews/Analytica
Chimica Acta 300 (1995) 335-340
working; Introduction to Data Processing; Software Engineering; and Laboratory Information Management Based Systems. A ‘Bibliography’ and ‘Subject Index with Abbreviations’ are included. The inclusion of abbreviations is very valuable although there are some abbreviations/acronyms omitted from the index either by unexplained design or default. The sections relating to interfacing devices and LIMS focus on aspects of computing that are directly relevant to the laboratory environment and automation therein. At its modest price the book provides very good value for money and could be read to advantage by many whose daily work brings them in contact with computers. The book would be particularly helpful to those who want to communicate with computing specialists or need to understand the specifications of computing facilities provided with new laboratory equipment.
MECA instrument. These chapters are a good guide for many readers to understand the characteristics of the technique. Chapters 4 to 7 comprehensively provide detailed analytical applications, such as emission spectra, interferences and their elimination, incorporation with other techniques and a great variety of derivatization reactions for indirect determination, which are useful for analytical chemists. The contributors surely succeeded in describing the usefulness of the technique as a detector. The monograph would absorb even more interest of readers and would encourage and stimulate research in this field, if those areas of immaturity were emphasized a little more.
John D. Green
Z.B. Alfassi (Ed.), Chemical Analysis by Nuclear Methods, Wiley, Chichester, 1994 (ISBN 0-471938343). xx + 556 pp. Price f90.00.
D.A. Stiles, A.C. Calokerinos and A. Townshend (Eds.), Flame Chemiluminescence Analysis by Molecular Emission Cavity Detection, Wiley, Chichester, 1994 (ISBN 0-471-94340-l). xiii + 205 pp. Price fiO.00. Molecular emission cavity analysis (MECA) is a flame chemiluminescence technique which is characterized by the use of a small cavity as the means for sample introduction into the flame and as the reaction space for all processes up to emission of radiation. The emitting species are restricted mainly to non-metals and metalloids, but gas generation systems or a great variety of derivatization reactions expand the technique to various analytical applications. The contributors are all key researchers who have developed and improved this technique, and consequently, the contents of the monograph are substantial. The first chapter describes briefly the circumstances of the development of MECA. The chapter describing the introduction and basic principles is systematically written, and comparison with other techniques makes the advantages of this technique clear. Chapter 3 “Instrumentation and automation” describes the simplicity and the easy assembly of a
Koichi Nakajima
As the contents list of this book indicates, the term “nuclear analysis” embraces a remarkably wide range of methods and techniques used in analysis. In this respect the book differs from a number of other recent books in the field. It probably gives the most comprehensive survey of all these methods. Also the subdivision is different, since it is not focussed on applications, but subdivided in 5 major parts, describing the physical background, the analysis by means of neutron sources, particle accelerators, radioactive sources and finally the use of radiotracers. Chapters 1 to 5 (part 1) give a classical and concise description of interaction with matter, detection and production of radiation and isotopes and finally some basic principles of radiation protection. The major interest of the book, however, is in the following 15 chapters, each of which, typically, comprises 20 to 35 pages. The principles, the equipment and the applicability of a group of nuclear methods of analysis are summarized in a clear and surveyable way, generally not overloaded with complicated figures or numerical data. Not only the more classical methods are treated, such as activation analysis, particle induced X-ray emission, isotope dilution and radio-immunoassay, but also less applied and more recently