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Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis, Vol. III. Instrumental Methods of Analysis (comprising two books, Part A and Part B)
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JOURNALOI;CHROMATOGRAPNV
Book Reviews
of Chemical Analysis. Vol. III. InstrwneMal Mefhods osf Amalysis (comprising two books, Rut A and Part IS), edited by F. J’. WELCHER, 6th Ed., Van Nostrand, London, 1966, 2,048 pp., price ~18.18.0.
StagadardMethods
These volumes constitute the third part of the classical *work on chemical analysis, which has been so far the most reliable source of information in the chemical laboratory. Volume III is an addition to previous editions;. it is a collection of the more important instrumental techniques and the applications of these techniques to the analysis of special materials. The aim of this volume is to provide the analytical chemist, who faces a challenging variety of new and increasingly complex materials and has to determine a diversity of constituents, which may be present in traces, information on the large number of instrumental methods which may be used for a particular analysis. The contents of this volume may appear to go beyond the title of the work as few instrumental methods, strictly speaking, may be defined as standard in the sense that they have been standardized by a particular group or have been accepted as such as a result of extensive use. Nevertheless the inclusion of the material has been sagacious because the wide coverage of these methods enables the analytical chemist to, select the one most suitable for a given purpose. The volume is divided into 74 chapters. Each of the first 41 chapters is devoted to a single instrumental method; a uniform scheme is followed: first the basic principles with the necessary equations, then the instrumentation and finally the descriptions of representative applications. Less common topics such as particle analysis and sedimentation analysis are also included. The remaining chapters are devoted either to specific fields of analysis or to a particular field such as alloys, air pollutants, foods, clinical medicine, glasses, plastics, etc. In each chapter the selected procedures making use of instrumental methods, which have proved most useful in practical and industrial work, are described with sufficient details. 11:is difficult to keep a volume of this size up to date but it is worth noting that all chapters cover literature references up to 1963 and in some cases up to 1964. From a practical stand point the volume is to be regarded as the most complete and the most useful text available today on instrumental analysis. The features described above render this volume an invaluable working tool for analytical chemists, especially if engaged in industrial work. The high cost of the volume may prevent a chemist from buying his personal copy but the volume should be available for reference in every library. A. LIBERTL (Naples) J. Clcrowalog., 28 (1967) 148-155
JOURNALOI;CHROMATOGRAPNV
Book Reviews
of Chemical Analysis. Vol. III. InstrwneMal Mefhods osf Amalysis (comprising two books, Rut A and Part IS), edited by F. J’. WELCHER, 6th Ed., Van Nostrand, London, 1966, 2,048 pp., price ~18.18.0.
StagadardMethods
These volumes constitute the third part of the classical *work on chemical analysis, which has been so far the most reliable source of information in the chemical laboratory. Volume III is an addition to previous editions;. it is a collection of the more important instrumental techniques and the applications of these techniques to the analysis of special materials. The aim of this volume is to provide the analytical chemist, who faces a challenging variety of new and increasingly complex materials and has to determine a diversity of constituents, which may be present in traces, information on the large number of instrumental methods which may be used for a particular analysis. The contents of this volume may appear to go beyond the title of the work as few instrumental methods, strictly speaking, may be defined as standard in the sense that they have been standardized by a particular group or have been accepted as such as a result of extensive use. Nevertheless the inclusion of the material has been sagacious because the wide coverage of these methods enables the analytical chemist to, select the one most suitable for a given purpose. The volume is divided into 74 chapters. Each of the first 41 chapters is devoted to a single instrumental method; a uniform scheme is followed: first the basic principles with the necessary equations, then the instrumentation and finally the descriptions of representative applications. Less common topics such as particle analysis and sedimentation analysis are also included. The remaining chapters are devoted either to specific fields of analysis or to a particular field such as alloys, air pollutants, foods, clinical medicine, glasses, plastics, etc. In each chapter the selected procedures making use of instrumental methods, which have proved most useful in practical and industrial work, are described with sufficient details. 11:is difficult to keep a volume of this size up to date but it is worth noting that all chapters cover literature references up to 1963 and in some cases up to 1964. From a practical stand point the volume is to be regarded as the most complete and the most useful text available today on instrumental analysis. The features described above render this volume an invaluable working tool for analytical chemists, especially if engaged in industrial work. The high cost of the volume may prevent a chemist from buying his personal copy but the volume should be available for reference in every library. A. LIBERTL (Naples) J. Clcrowalog., 28 (1967) 148-155