What This Chapter Should Teach You

Chemistry, like all sciences, relies on measurement, yet a poll of our students and colleagues showed that few could even start to give a reasonable explanation of measurement. Reading textbooks on data analysis revealed that this most basic act of science is rarely defined. Believe it or not there are people that specialize in the science of measurement a field of study called metrology. The definition used in this book for measurement is a set of operations having the object of determining the value of a quantity. We will come back to this but first... 

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