Analytical textbooks

The Textbook of Quantitative Inorganic Analysis by Kolthoff and E. B. Sandell, published in 1936, did much to establish analytical chemistry as a separate academic discipline in the United States.329 The dramatic changes in analytical chemistry in the twentieth century, and especially after World War II, have had a major impact on university and college courses. The changing nature of such courses in the United States, both introductory and advanced, has been traced by surveying the contents of various analytical textbooks over a fifty year period.330 A similar study looks at seven successive editions of the same analytical textbook over the period 1948-1988, thereby... 

There are many good analytical textbooks now available, however most concentrate on a detailed discussion of analytical techniques (e.g. those based upon the principles of chromatography and spectroscopy), and at the expense of the more fundamental considerations of why the analysis is to be carried out and how the samples are to be taken. Whilst most modern texts will introduce the reader to the importance of sampling, many gloss over the serious errors which may be introduced into the results if the sampling protocol is not undertaken in a logical and statistically significant manner. 

Until we wrote this text, the book by Miller and Miller was the data analysis book the we recommended in our courses. For a slim volume our students thought it overpriced, and chemometrics introduced in the recent revisions was, in our view, unnecessary, but the early chapters do cover what an analytical chemist needs to know. Apart from chapters in larger analytical textbooks, there is no other useful book on the market. 

References are usually given for the preparation of all the derivatives having separate columns in the Tables, as well as for important ones listed in the miscellaneous section of the Tables References to five different popular analytical textbooks are given, assuming that at least one of them, or another equivalent publication, would be available to the worker These are... 

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The next author of note was Heinrich Rose (1795-1864). He published his book in 1829 and it contained for the first time a systematic scheme of qualitative analysis. An improved procedure was published in 1841 in the analytical textbook of Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818-1897). He divided the metals into six analytical groups, and his scheme remains the basis of classical qualitative analysis. Fresenius s book was very successful by the time of his death it had run to 16 editions and had been translated into many languages. In 1862 Fresenius founded the Zeitschrift fur analytische Chemie, which was the first chemical journal to specialise in one branch of the subject. 

Further reading General list of analytical textbooks... 

What would happen if phenolphthalein indicator were added to the water to which sodium metal was introduced Specifically, what color, if any, would the phenolphthalein turn Briefly interpret the result. Hint The colors of indicators can be found in any good introductory or analytical textbook.)... 

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