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We first experimented with the Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) in order to measure the ablation rate in 1987 (12). The only technique used before was the stylus profilometer which revealed enough accuracy for etch rate of the order of 0.1 pm, but was unable to probe the region of the ablation threshold where the etch rate is expressed in a few A/pulse. Polymer surfaces are easily damaged by the probe tip and the meaning of these measurements are often questionable. Scanning electron microscopy (21) and more recently interferometry (22) were also used. The principle of the QCM was demonstrated in 1957 by Sauerbrey (22) and the technique was developed in thin film chemistiy. analytical and physical chemistry (24). The equipment used in this work is described in previous publications (25). When connected to an appropriate oscillating circuit, the basic vibration frequency (FQ) of the crystal is 5 MHz. When a film covers one of the electrodes, a negative shift <5F, proportional to its mass, is induced ... 

The gradient of the PES (force) can in principle be calculated by finite difference methods. This is, however, extremely inefficient, requiring many evaluations of the wave function. Gradient methods in quantum chemistiy are fortunately now very advanced, and analytic gradients are available for a wide variety of ab initio methods [123-127]. Note that if the wave function depends on a set of parameters X], for example, the expansion coefficients of the basis functions used to build the orbitals in molecular orbital (MO) theory. 

Importantly for direct dynamics calculations, analytic gradients for MCSCF methods [124-126] are available in many standard quantum chemistiy packages. This is a big advantage as numerical gradients require many evaluations of the wave function. The evaluation of the non-Hellmann-Feynman forces is the major effort, and requires the solution of what are termed the coupled-perturbed MCSCF (CP-MCSCF) equations. The large memory requirements of these equations can be bypassed if a direct method is used [233]. Modem computer architectures and codes then make the evaluation of first and second derivatives relatively straightforward in this theoretical framework. 

Full quantum wavepacket studies on large molecules are impossible. This is not only due to the scaling of the method (exponential with the number of degrees of freedom), but also due to the difficulties of obtaining accurate functions of the coupled PES, which are required as analytic functions. Direct dynamics studies of photochemical systems bypass this latter problem by calculating the PES on-the-fly as it is required, and only where it is required. This is an exciting new field, which requires a synthesis of two existing branches of theoretical chemistry—electronic structure theory (quantum chemistiy) and mixed nuclear dynamics methods (quantum-semiclassical). 

The word portal is often used for web sites that function as an entiy to a repo-sitoiy of information on almost any topic on the Internet. The following portal categories for chemical issues arc distinguished general chemistry sites substance information sites analytical chemistiy sites enviromnental chemistry sites toxicology and occupational health sites as well as patent seiwices [47],... 

I. M. Yjc>x. mn2csi,A.nalytical Chemistry of Potassium Mcademy ofSdences of the USSR, Vemadskii Institute of Geochemistiy and Analytical Chemistiy, Isiael Piogiam foi Scientific Tianslations, Jemsalem, 1965. 

Figure 10.11 Comparison of the mass spectra of a neroli oil peak (camphene) obtained by HPLC-HRGC-MS (a) and GC-MS (b) with a library specti um of the same compound (c). Reprinted from Perfumer and Flavorist, 21, L. Mondello et al., On-line HPLC- HRGC in the analytical chemistiy of citms essential oils , pp. 25-49, 1996, with permission from Allured Publishing Coip.

Center for Analytical Chemistiy, National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD 20899... 

Organic Quantitative Analysis Vol. 1C Analytical Chemistiy of the Elements... 

Farrant TJ (1997) Practical Statistics for the Analytical Scientist - a Bench Guide. Royal Society of Chemistiy for the Laboratory of the Government Chemist (LGC), Teddington... 

J. Korldsch, Handbook of Ion Exchange Their Application to Inorganic Analytical Chemistiy, Vol. 1-6, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1989-... 

Supercritical fluid technology theoretical and applied approaches to analytical chemistiy / Frank V. Bright, editor, Mary Ellen P. McNally, editor. 

Developed from a symposium sponsored by the Division of Analytical Chemistiy at the 196th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Los Angeles, California, September 25-30,1988. ... 

A series which presents the current state of the art in chosen areas of oils and fats chemistiy, including its relevance to the food and pharmaceutical industries. Written at professional and reference level, it is directed at chemists and technologists working in oils and fats processing, the food industry, the oleo-chemicals industry and the pharmaceutical industry, at analytical chemists and quality assurance personnel, and at lipid chemists in academic research laboratories. Each volume in the series provides an accessible source of information on the science and technology of a particular area. 

Mark, H.B., Jr. Rechnitz, G.A. Kinetics in Analytical Chemistiy Wiley-Interscience New York, 1968 Chapter 5. 

The simplex method is a suitable method for rapid straightforward optimization in many fields of analytical chemistiy, e.g. flow injection [44,45], but for many chromatographic methods more convenient strategies are available. It is however useful when some improvement of an existing method is desired, without trying to find an absolute optimum. 

H. A. hubs, ed.. The Chemisty of Synthetic Dyes and Pigments, Amesicoai Chemical Society Monograph Series, Reinhold Pubhshing Corp., New York, 1955. K. Venkataraman ed.. The Analytical Chemistiy of Synthetic Dyes, Whey-Interscience, New York, 1977. 

M L. Lee, M.V Novotny and K.D. Bartle, Analytical Chemistiy of Polycyclic Compounds, Academic Press, New York (1992) 462. 

Journal Analytical Chemistiy (American Chemical Society, Washington DC) contains biennial reviews (starting in 1966) of Mossbauer spectroscopy, see for example Vol. 62, p. 125R-139R, 1990. 

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Spreadsheet Summary In Chapter 2 of Applications of Microsoft Excel in Analytical Chemistiy, we develop a worksheet to calculate the pooled standard deviation of the data from Example 6-2. The Excel function DEVSQO is introduced to find the sum of the squares of the deviations. As extensions of this exercise, you may use the worksheet to solve some of the pooled standard deviation problems at the end of this chapter. You can also expand the worksheet to accommodate more data points within data sets and larger numbers of sets. 

Spreadsheet Summary In Chapter 3 of Applications of Microsoft Excel in Analytical Chemistiy, we use Excel s Analysis ToolPak to perform the paired t text on the data of Example 7-7. We compare the results obtained with those found without pairing. 

Spreadsheet Summary In Chapter 4 of Applications of Microsoft Excel in Analytical Chemistiy, a multiple standard additions procedure is illustrated. The determination of strontium in sea water with inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry is used as an example. The worksheet is prepared, and the standard additions plot is made. The unknown Sr concentration and its standard deviation are obtained. 

In 1923, two chemists, J. N. Brpnsted in Denmark and J. M. Lowry in England, proposed independently a theory of acid/base behavior that is particularly useful in analytical chemistiy According to the Brpnsted-Lowry theory, an acid is a proton donor and a base is a proton acceptor. For a molecule to behave as an acid, it must encounter a proton acceptor (or base). Likewise, a molecule that can accept a proton behaves as a base if it encounters an acid. 

Complexation reactions have many uses in analytical chemistiy, but their classical application is in complexometric titrations. Here, a metal ion reacts with a suitable ligand to form a complex, and the equivalence point is determined by an indicator or an appropriate instrumental method. The formation of soluble inorganic complexes is not widely used for titrations, as discussed later, but the formation of precipitates, particularly with silver nitrate as the titrant, is the basis for many important determinations (see Section 13F). 

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