Table of Contents

Part 1: The scope of analytical chemistry: ground rules and fundamentals 1: The scope of Analytical Chemistry and the nature of analytical measurements2: Analytical quality assurance and statisticsPart 2: Chemical analysis: key principles and processes3: Standard wet chemical and reagent-based techniques4: Analyses based on the determination of mass5: An introduction to the use of visible and ultraviolet light for analytical measurementsPart 3: The key analytical techniques6: Further applications of UV-visible absorption and fluorescence phenomena including X-ray fluorescence, Raman, Mossbauer, and photoelectron spectroscopic techniques7: Atomic spectroscopy in analytical chemistry8: Separatory methods and chromatography9: Mass spectroscopy 10: Electro-analytical techniques 11: Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy12: Infrared techniquesPart 4: Analytical chemistry in practice: contemporary analytical science13: Radiochemical analytical methods14: Bio-Analytical methods15: Environmental analyses and assays16: Critical choice of technique, good laboratory practice, and safety in the laboratory

About the Author

Lecturer in Analytical Chemistry, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1993-1996 Lecturer in Biomedical Materials Science, UMIST, 1996-2000 Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Materials Science, UMIST 2000-2002 Professor of Bio and Electroanalytical Science, Cranfield University, 2002-

Reviews

It is essential that students have access to good textbooks, which give enough information to be useful to the specialist but do not overwhelm those begining in the subject. Higson had gone a long way towards providing such a book, which I am certain will be used widely in teaching analytical chemistry. Education in Chemistry 2004. There is a simple design with well laid out text and uncomplicated diagrams. I particularly like the diagrams as they are very clear and would be easy for students to reproduce. The author has eradicated mathematics wherever possible, which will be popular with undergraduates. Chemistry World