The best-selling Chemical Technicians' Ready Reference Handbook is the definitive reference on laboratory safety, analytical procedures, and instrumentation techniques for the modern chemical laboratory.

Features

• Up-to-date information on the role of chemical laboratory technicians and chemical process operators in industry
• Curent data on laboratory safety, chemical wast disposal, government regulations, and ISO 9000
• New and expanded chapters on laboratory statistics, computers in the laboratory, thermal analysis techniques, and electrophoresis
• Expanded step-by-step procedures for laboratory instrumentation, including chromatographic separation techniques and spectrophotometric methods
• Coverage of classic wet methods such as gravimetric and volumetric analysis, Karl Fischer water determinations, and Kjeldahl nitrogen

Chemical Technicians' Ready Reference Handbook continues to be the best place to turn for the procedures, techniques, and formulas used in the modern chemical laboratory.

Contents

1. The Chemical Technician
2. Laboratory Safety
3. Handling Chemicals and Solutions
4. Compressed Gases in the Laboratory
5. Pressure and Vacuum
6. Basic Laboratory Mathematics
7. Good Laboratory Practices
8. Computers in the Chemistry Laboratory
9. Measuring Temperature
10. Heating and Cooling
11. Mechanical Agitation
12. Laboratory Filtration
13. Recrystallization
14. The Balance
15. Gravimetric Analysis
16. Laboratory Glassware
17. Plastic Lab Ware
18. Laboratory Tools and Hardware
19. Determination of Physical Other Properties
20. Extraction
21. Distillation and Evaporation
22. Fundamentals of Chemistry
23. Organic Chemistry Nomenclature
24. Chemicals and Preparation of Solutions
25. Volumetric Analysis
26. pH Measurement
27. Basic Electricity
28. Electrochemistry
29. The Electromagnetic Spectrum
30. Visible and Ultraviolet Spectroscopy
31. Infrared Spectroscopy
32. Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
33. Atomic Emission Spectroscopy
34. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
35. Radioactivity
36. Chromatography
37. Gas Chromatography
38. Liquid Chromatography
39. Electrophoresis
40. Thermal Analysis

Appendices

• Laboratory First Aid
• Abbreviations, Symbols, and Unit Conversions
• Glossary of Chemical Technology Terms
• Physical Properties of Water

Index

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