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Excellent Text on Analytical Chemistry.......2007-06-03
This review refers to the fourth edition of this book.
I bought this book at the Stanford University Bookstore as a reference text for quantitative analytical chemistry. Overall, I'd say it's an excellent book which covers all the fundamentals of the subject. It also contains a great deal of useful data. The editing is excellent (I didn't notice any typos) and so are the graphics (tables, charts, pictures).
Mind you, this subject is so big that only a small fraction can be covered even in a large tome like this. But the author has used the space available to him well.
I note that the reviewers who do not like this book seem to be students while those who love it are teachers or experienced engineers (like myself). I suppose that means that the author is assuming a certian level of knowledge on the part of his readers and is not spending a large amount of time explaining basic concepts.
most student friendly of all the analytical chem books.......2007-04-16
So, you're considering either buying or adopting this text for intro analytical chemistry? Good choice!
This is the easiest, most straightforward, book on the market for students. It's been that way through many editions. It was a breath of fresh air (in comparison to Skoog) when it was first published.
Your other choices are "Fundamentals of Analytical Chemistry" by Skoog et al.(ISBN 0534417965) and "Analytical Chemistry" by Gary D. Christian (ISBN 0471214728).
Skoog is good it's just that he can't match Harris for clarity.
Christian doesn't change much. The end-of-chapter problems are usually just re-numbered. It's OK, though.
Fortunately, whichever you choose, none can be considered deficient.
One thing I don't like about these intro books: Why do they include all this instrumental analysis material? The instrumental analysis texts do a better job with these subjects anyway and all the extra chapters make the books needlessly heavy.
The intro books should just focus on basics like acid/base/complexometric/redox titrations, gravimetric analysis, sample prep., extractions, etc.
Harris (along with Bertolucci) has also written a true classic in the field of molecular spectroscopy: "Symmetry and Spectroscopy: An Introduction to Vibrational and Electronic Spectroscopy". Get that, too.
Check out my other reviews for other chem books
Why can't all chem books be like this?.......2006-12-20
The explanations and reasoning behind doing certain procedures and calculations in this book is outstandingly good (most of the time). Each chapter provides detailed workthroughs of problems with easy to understand explanations and in a wide enough variety of ways for one to be able to do most of the problems in the back of the chapter without TOO much trouble. The life saver though is the separate optional solutions manual which provides ALL of the answers (even stepwise) to the chapter problems (GET THIS BOOK!). The chapters involving instrumental analysis could use some improvement in clarity, but the other chapters are very well written.
Just About Identical as the 6th edition.......2006-12-12
I just took a class that required this textbook, and I used the 6th edition instead of the 7th, and there was only one difference.... in the 6th edition, 2 topics were seperated into 2 different chapters, and in the 7th the two topics were combined into one chapter... If your a student and need this book for class, save yourself some money and buy the 6th edition. The word and homework problems are identical.
Textbook case.......2006-11-12
Item was delivered quickly and in very good condition. No problems were experienced. Good job and thanks.
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Field flow fractionation (FFF) is an emerging separation technique, which has been proven successful in the analysis of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology products, polymers, soils, and foods, among others. In this book, Martin Schimpf joins forces with Karin Caldwell and J. Calvin Giddings, two of the primary developers of this technique, to bring you the first comprehensive, one-stop reference on the technique.
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Extensively revised and updated with a more modern flavor and a new, two-color design, this sixth edition deals with principles and techniques of quantitative analysis. Examples of analytical techniques are drawn from such areas as life sciences, clinical chemistry, air and water pollution, and industrial analyses. New to this edition: Excel spreadsheets on CD-ROM * New chapters on good laboratory practice, as well as genomics and proteomics * A more modern flavor.
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A comprehensive book.......2000-07-20
This book is comprehensive and comprehensible. Since I was doing my undergraduate studies I enjoyed Christian's Analytical Chemistry, it's a learning book with both: essential information and enough detail. Now, in the 5th edition, it has some new techniques and basic references for almost all the analytical methods in chemistry, and continues providing an overview of the techniques and equipment involved in analytical chemistry. Its explanations are useful and concise, mainly to be used as a text book for an analytical chemistry course.
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Revew of guide.......2007-01-10
The book was very helpfull. Covered most of the topics covered in class. Very self explanitory text and very easy to understand.
Great, but wait a minute please........2005-10-15
I gave this book 5 stars because it explains different topics based on electrochemistry, pH, precipitation, potentiometry, etc., and how they relate amongst themselves. The book really gets deep and provides plenty of examples and exercises to master the topics.
That was the good part, now I have to tell you that paying as much time as this book requires is not worth it. I have worked as an Analytical Chemist for three years where I have always been searching which technologies most laboratories and companies use. I also got a M.S. in the field and have taken a deep look at the job market around the world. After all this experiences, I hardly find a place where they would ask more than just taking pH of samples and some titrations that do not require the deep knowledge of this book. It is High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), Gas Chromatography (GC), Atomic Absorption (AA) and spectroscopy (especially UV/Vis) the ruling technologies.
For some reason the academic communities have been really careless about the skills chemistry students need in analytical labs. Most analytical chemistry book deal deeply with electrochemistry topics and most schools have students study them rather deep. The chromatographic techniques are not usually given the importance they require. They regard them easy topics and too many books that do mention HPLC and GC cover too much on equilibrium theory and more useless topics. And the same academic communities are rather incongruent because too much electrochemistry is not very useful in the chemistry subject GRE.
Not so good for graduate exams.......2005-05-04
If you are looking for a means to review for a graduate school exam in analytical chemistry, look elsewhere. The material covered in an undergraduate general chemistry textbook is much better for review purposes. For those actually taking the class, I cannot comment on this books' utility.
If you're psyched to learn chemistry..........2000-11-04
I own many, many Schaum's Outlines, and am satisfied with all of them. However, before you buy this outline of Analytical Chemistry or any of the other Schaum's Outlines, you need to ask yourself what your needs are. If you are looking for a brief review of a subject, you should look elsewhere. If you are taking a course in Analytical Chemistry and need a little help with some areas of it, you should look elsewhere--preferably, ask someone with a thorough grasp of the subject to explain those areas to you.
The Schaum's Outlines are best used as a self-study tool. Let's face it, reviewing an entire subject and solving all the problems to gain a solid grasp on the material is difficult and time-consuming, and I suspect few students already enrolled in a course will have the extra time to rehash what they've already been told by reading through a Schaum's Outline, and few will want to go through so many problems--at least in my courses, the problems we are provided are too much to begin with.
For review purposes, Schaum's may help some students. However, since you need to know what your course will test you on specifically, you would need to go through the outline along with your notes. Therefore, spending more time reviewing your course notes might be a better use of your time.
Schaum's Outlines are essentially cheaply made textbooks, and, as with other texts, the writing varies widely from one book in the series to another. If a cheap self-study of a course is what you seek, or you'd like to preview a course you plan to take, by all means go with Schaum's. If you are a student looking for help with a subject, seek it elsewhere.
Analytical Chemistry made easy.......2000-06-13
The book explains all the concepts regarding analytical chemistry in a very lucid manner,which makes it a very easy to understand book. The way in which the book deals with the problems in analytical chemistry is noteworthy.If only the coverage would have been deeper my rating would have been 5 star.Still a must read book for who want to get started and get a feel of problems related to the subject of analytical chemistry.
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Very few chemistry books survive to a sixth edition having had a lifetime of sixty years. Dr. Arthur I. Vogel's classic introduction to analytical methods has provided generations of chemists with a basis for the teaching, learning and application of analytical chemistry.
Analysts need to understand the concepts behind methods and Vogel's Quantitative Chemical Analysis provides clear introductions to all the key analytical methods including those involving advanced computerised equipment available in many analytical laboratories. The editors have built further on the work of Dr Vogel, modernising the approach while retaining the analytical concepts and ideas which were built into the original work.
This new edition (the first for ten years) has been extensively revised to take into account developments in instrumental procedures and coupled techniques whilst maintaining the book's focus on quantitative chemical and problem-specific analyses. With excellent cross-referencing this book provides a wealth of examples and tables of data.
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an Undergraduate's perspective.......2005-05-15
I have just finished my first course in analytical chemistry. I was armed with the recommended textbook by Harris and also my nerdy instincts told me this book (Vogel's) is also handy.
Well for one it is not an introductory textbook, it has all the relevant information an individual can ever need at any (note ANY) level of analytical chemistry. Whether it be work, postgrad or like myself the crappy years of undergraduate study.
This book has several strong points and if used in the appropriate context will serve to be the best analytical book money can buy...ever.... Firstly it is small, light and hardcover (I am so surprised that they fit all the information that they did) so its good for brushing up on exams and taking to the lab whilst doing lab work.
Secondly it is appropriately organized with a first chapter introducing fundamentals (not basics btw) of analytical chemistry from theoretical POV.
It later organizes itself into genre of technique i.e. chemmometry, chromatography and spectroscopy to name the important few. The book provides adequate information on context of these tests, the chemistry behind the tests and how they are supposed to be conducted.
The material presented here is succinct, straightforward and so it makes the best reference. Its basically the technical and practical dictionary for analytical chemists. Vogel's has an established name for a long time; it has provided the best textual resources on practical organic chemistry and also inorganic chemical analysis. This is a truly remarkable addition to the collection that supersedes all other practical chemistry textbook. It is ideal for researchers, medical researchers, students, lecturers, lab technicians and anyone with basic knowledge of general chemistry who wants to excel in analytical chemistry.
This is really relevant after the first introductory course to analytical chemistry; you will find Harris redundant afterwards and would probably stick to this. I suggest buy this and borrow Harris or any other prescribed textbook from your library. Once you know something than its a matter of refreshing that information which this book most definitely does.
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A Dismal excuse for a book.......2007-10-01
Not impressed. I am a Chem major in my Senior year and I can say with certainty that this book is worthless. The examples are poor, and the problems at the end of each chapter require knowledge not covered within said chapter. I'm not sure what book is better, i'm already out too much money for this one and not wasting more on another one!
Not worth it.......2007-02-16
I had homework to do, and since my teacher just ASSUMES everyone has had statistics, he breezed through the stat portion in just a lecture.
Well, I hadn't had any stats at all, and needed the solutions manual to try to work out the problems.
The solution manual is the exact same as what is in the back of the book. Just the answers to SOME of the problems. Not all. Doesn't show steps.
Horrible.
I wasted my money.
A Very Poor Book.......2006-12-15
I am a CHEM major and I was consistently surprised at how many typos and flat-out errors the SEVENTH edition of this book had - seven editions and still poor editing! The examples that are provided are for simpler problems and when you go to do homework, you're lost. Also, instead of using less than a penny's-worth of ink and printing the equation that they are using in an example, it will just refer you back to another page in the book where it was introduced. Some problems require several equations, and you're flipping back and forth all-over the book just to see what equations they are using.
If you're stuck with this book, I recommend you somehow obtain the INSTRUCTORS' solutions manual (or at least the students' solutions manual) so you can actually do the homework.
I also bought a used, previous edition of the Harris Quantitative Analysis textbook. You can get it and a solutions manual pretty cheap if you get a previous version and it's a good book that will explain what Skoog tries to explain so poorly.
Prepare to waste your time.......2005-10-20
This solutions manual is not nearly as helpful as the manuals that accompanied my past gen-chem and o-chem textbooks. The solutions are filled with numbers that have no units , steps are skipped, and there aren't sufficient explanations for tough problems. Overall, this manual does not allow for efficient use of study time. Also, This manual is only about 1/3 the thickness of the text book.
Good text for intro, general analytical course(s).......2003-01-23
We use this text (now in its 7th edition) for both our Analytical I (chemical analysis) and Analytical II (instrumental analysis) courses. They are both 1-semester courses at the sophomore year, and this text is just the correct level and length to cover both courses. There are a number of broad sections, each of which is divided into several chapters. Roughly the 1st half covers chemical methods and the second half covers the instrumental methods. There are also a few chapters devoted to statistical analysis.
The sections are reasonably independent and can be done in pretty much any order, giving a great degree of flexibility. The text itself is easy to read with numerous descriptive diagrams. I say this for second-year level courses - the text is too superficial for higher levels. There is a good mix of descriptive chemistry to give the student a feel for the chemistry behind the analyses. Finally, there are adequate exercises at the end of the chapters, some of which are cumulative with previous sections. There is also a very handy tutorial on the use of Microsoft's Excel for use in a course like this, including some specific exercises in using the spreadsheet. I find it very helpful, and not at all exclusive for those using Excel since Quatro-Pro (and Lotus?) is very similar and contains help files that translate from Excel parlance.
My biggest issue is lack of a section on mass spectroscopy. Skoog's own "Instrumental Analysis" text has a fine section on mass spec, but this text contains virtually no mention of the technique, in spite of the fact that it is an increasingly important technique for both quantitative and qualitative trace analysis. However, that's the only real negative point - this text is very good and useful for 2nd year level analytical courses. (P.S. students find it straightforward and clear as well.)
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