Practical Guide to Instrumental Analysis
Matter-of-fact Guide to Instrumental Analysis Books
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A Matter-of-fact Guide to Instrumental Analysis covers basic methods of instrumental analysis, including electroanalytical techniques, optical techniques, atomic spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, thermoanalytical techniques, separation techniques, and flow analytical techniques. Each chapter provides a brief theoretical introduction followed by basic and unique application experiments. This book is ideal for readers who need a knowledge of unique techniques in order to use instrumental methods to conduct their own analytical tasks.
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I saw this on the library shelf and grabbed it up as an aid for plotting next semester’s lab. Overall, not the best use of it. It appears to consider itself a lab manual, with individual sections written up as if to be used by students. But…
As a lab manual, it spends a lot of time on textbook explanations. Helpful if this were the only textbook, but there’s not really enough detail for it to serve on its own.
As a source of experiments, it spends a lot of its time on methods which most undergraduate labs don’t have available, such as thermogravimetry, X-ray diffraction, and neutron activation. Other methods (Ch. 16, “determination of organic functional groups”) belong in a different book entirely, as they are simply volumetric methods with visible endpoints.
It offers a honestly thorough introduction to chromatographic theory, but the HPLC “experiments” are all methods for determining discourse/stationary phase performance (checks for metal ions, surface coverage, etc).
The range of electroanalytical methods is excellent, but many, again, require instruments which few teaching labs will have (an oscillotitrator? even the Karl Fischer apparatus, also included, is uncommon). The ones which can be done on general equipment are frequently the usual reduction-of-metal-ions stuff.
The UV-vis experiments are well done, and probably the most helpful part of the book. Fluorescence coverage is extremely limited. The experiments are written to take advantage of very specific instrumentation. They’re simple to adapt to whatever one’s lab has available, but it’s still an extensive rewrite.
As a matter-of-fact manual for a professional who just wants to know how to do a ____ method – again, everything is written for specific instruments, so it’s going to take adaptation to make work on your apparatus. And if you’ve got the experience to do that easily, do you really need this book? Most likely not.
The editing and graphics are honestly excellent. The line-art drawings of glassware, etc., are especially well done. I found a few mistakes, most glaringly a “weekly bound” species (I had no thought that dissociation equilibria were so attentive to the calendar).
A real lab manual for instrumental analysis would be quite helpful. I would look forward to seeing a second edition, more focused on the techniques commonly encountered in teaching labs, and with much less emphasis on exotic hardware. (Or, if you’re going to include it, give us enough detail that we can build or replace it if we really want to!)
Rating: 3 / 5