Intro
Preface
Contents
About the Author
1 Statistical Methods of Analysis
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Significant Figures
1.3 Types of Errors and Their Causes
1.4 Precision and Accuracy
1.5 The Confidence Limit
1.6 Test of Significance
1.7 Rejection of Result
2 Sampling
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Gases
2.3 Diffusive Samplers
2.4 Real-Time Analysis
3 Spectroanalytical Techniques
3.1 Origin of Spectra
3.2 Interaction of Radiation with Matter
3.3 Fundamental Laws of Spectroscopy

3.4 Validity of Beer-Lambert's Law and Deviation from Beer-Lambert's Law
3.5 Types of Spectra
4 Ultraviolet and Visible Spectral Methods
4.1 Nature of Electronic Transitions
4.2 Instrumentation
4.3 Types of UV-Visible Spectrophotometers
4.4 Choice of Solvents
4.5 Concept of Chromophore
4.6 Shifting of Absorption Bands and Change in Intensity
4.7 Application of UV-Visible Spectral Methods
4.8 Molar Compositions
4.9 Quantitative Analysis
4.10 In Tautomeric Equilibria
5 Infrared Spectroscopy
5.1 Introduction

5.2 Molecular Vibrations, Vibrational Modes, and Vibrational Frequency
5.3 Theory of IR Absorption Spectroscopy
5.4 Instrumentation
5.5 Comparison of IR and UV-Visible Spectrophotometers
5.6 IR Fingerprint Regions
5.7 Application of IR Spectroscopy to Organic Compounds
5.8 Application of IR Spectroscopy to Inorganic Compounds
5.9 Quantitative Applications of FT-IR Spectroscopy
6 Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
6.1 Basic Principles of Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
6.2 Instrumentation
6.3 Single-and Double-Beam Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometers

6.4 Interferences in Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
6.5 Atomic Line Broadening
6.6 Background Correction Methods
6.7 Application of Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
7 Atomic Emission Spectroscopy
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Principles of Emission Spectroscopy
7.3 Flame Emission Spectroscopy (FES)
7.4 Distribution Between Ground and Excited States
7.5 Instrumentation of FES
7.6 Interferences in Flame Photometry
7.7 Evaluation of Results
7.8 Advantages of Flame Photometry
7.9 Plasma Emission Spectroscopy
7.9.1 Inductively Coupled Plasma Source (ICP)

7.9.2 ICP Instrumentation
7.9.3 Application of ICP-AES
8 Thermal Methods
8.1 Introduction to Thermal Methods of Analysis and Its Instrumentation
8.2 Instrumentation of TG
8.3 Applications of Thermogravimetry
8.4 Differential Thermal Analysis (DTA)
8.5 Applications of DTA
8.6 Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
8.7 Applications of DSC
9 Electroanalytical Methods
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Classification of Electroanalytical Methods
9.3 Electrochemical Cells
9.4 Electrode Potential
9.5 The Nernst Equation
9.6 Potentiometry for Quantitative Analysis