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This laboratory manual offers a broad introduction to practical instrumental analysis and quantitative analytical chemistry. The practical activities include experiments to determine the quantity of analytes. Analytical techniques covered in the book are: turbidimetry, atomic absorption spectrometry, flame emission spectrometry, refractometry, infrared spectroscopy, fluorometry and UV-visible spectrophotometry.
Practical Chemistry in 3 Volumes:
Volume 1: Practical Chemistry: Instrumental Analysis.
Volume 2: Practical Chemistry: Transition Metals.
Review of all the important basic techniques in analytical chemistry.
Indispensable for instructors and students in analytical chemistry.
Experiment 1: determination of refractive index and molar refraction
Experiment 2: determining the percentage composition of unknown mixture by refractive index
Experiment 3: measurement of sodium and potassium using flame emission spectrometry
Experiment 4: determination of calcium concentration using atomic absorption spectrometer
Experiment 5: determination of complex ion composition by Job’s method of continuous variation
Experiment 6: determination of chlorides and sulfated by nepheloturbidometry
Experiment 7: determination of absorption maxima and effect of solvents on absorption maxima of organic compounds
Experiment 8: determination of chromium and manganese in a mixture
Experiment 9: fluorometric determination of riboflavin in energy drinks
Experiment 10: Infrared spectroscopy of solids and solutions
Experiment 11: spectrophotometric determination of iron by 1,10-phenanthroline in drinking water