Valcarcel M. Principles of analytical chemistry: a textbook

Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2000. — 384 p. — ISBN: 978-3-642-62959-4, ISBN: 978-3-642-57157-2 (eBook).This book is intended to serve both as a generic introduction to Analytical Chemistry and as a body of essential analytical chemical knowledge.
This grassroots approach aims to convey the underlying integral teaching message of this discipline in a proper manner in order to ensure effective, consistent learning leading to a solid analytical chemical background.
As such, this textbook has been conceived as a tool of use to students undertaking Analytical Chemistry for the first time within the framework of a wide variety of undergraduate curricula.
It aims to be a visiting card for this discipline.
Because of their generic nature, the contents of this book must obviously be completed with the topics that constitute the typical core of other, high -quality textbooks of which this is by no means a competitor.
This is an atypical Analytical Chemistry textbook inasmuch as it provides no systematic description of analytical techniques (gravimetries, titrimetries, spectrometries, electro analysis) or methods - not even of ionic equilibria, improperly deemed by some "the fundamentals of analysis".
Rather, it deals systematically with the true intrinsic fundamentals of Analytical Chemistry, which are those that make it an independent, self-contained science and distinguish it unequivocally from other scientific and technical areas.
Few textbooks adopt such a generic approach to the subject, one that addresses topics such as analytical properties (Chapt. 2), standards and traceability (Chapt. 3), the analytical process (Chapt. 4), qualitative (Chapt. 5) and quantitative aspects (Chapt. 6), the analytical problem (Chapt. 7) and analytical quality (Chapter 8).
These contents are intended to provide a solid foundation for subsequently acquired analytical chemical knowledge.
Some of these topics are not easy to teach on an elementary level, so they are profusely illustrated with nonacademic examples and consolidated with questions and seminars.