Very few chemistry books survive to a sixth edition having had a lifetime of sixty years. Dr. Arthur I. Vogel's classic introduction to analytical methods has provided generations of chemists with a basis for the teaching, learning and application of analytical chemistry.

Analysts need to understand the concepts behind methods and Vogel's Quantitative Chemical Analysis provides clear introductions to all the key analytical methods including those involving advanced computerised equipment available in many analytical laboratories. The editors have built further on the work of Dr Vogel, modernising the approach while retaining the analytical concepts and ideas which were built into the original work.

This new edition (the first for ten years) has been extensively revised to take into account developments in instrumental procedures and coupled techniques whilst maintaining the book's focus on quantitative chemical and problem-specific analyses. With excellent cross-referencing this book provides a wealth of examples and tables of data.

FEATURES:

comprehensive coverage of methods with detailed easy-to follow practical experiments

basic analytical theory which is essential for understanding the subject

greatly expanded sections on instrumental analysis including aspects of miniaturisation

increased emphasis on minor/trace component analysis and revised statistical handling of data

new chapters on sampling, mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance

chemometrics arid statistics are clearly explained

CONTENTS:

PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION PREFACE TO SIXTH EDITION SAFETY UNITS REAGENT PURITY CHEMICAL ANALYSIS

SOLUTION REACTIONS:

FUNDAMENTAL THEORY

COMMON APPARATUS & BASIC TECHNIQUES

STATISTICS:

AN INTRODUCTION TO CHEMOMETRICS

SAMPLING

THE BASIS OF SEPARATIVE METHODS

THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY

LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY TITRIMETRIC ANALYSIS GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS THERMAL ANALYSIS DIRECT

ELECTROANALYTICAL METHODS

NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY

ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY

ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY

MOLECULAR ELECTRONIC SPECTROSCOPY

V1BRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY

MASS SPECTROMETRY APPENDICES

J Mendham is a consultant analytical chemist and R C Denney a consultant forensic scientist. J D Barnes and M J K Thomas are members of the School of Chemistry, University of Greenwich