B. Ham – Analytical Chemistry. A Chemist and Laboratory Technician’s Toolkit (2016)

Автор: B. Ham
Название книги: Analytical Chemistry
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Химия
Страницы: 683
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

A comprehensive study of analytical chemistry providing the basics of analytical chemistry and introductions to the laboratory

Covers the basics of a chemistry lab including lab safety, glassware, and common instrumentation
Covers fundamentals of analytical techniques such as wet chemistry, instrumental analyses, spectroscopy, chromatography, FTIR, NMR, XRF, XRD, HPLC, GC-MS, Capillary Electrophoresis, and proteomics
Includes ChemTech an interactive program that contains lesson exercises, useful calculators and an interactive periodic table
Details Laboratory Information Management System a program used to log in samples, input data, search samples, approve samples, and print reports and certificates of analysis

This book is an analytical chemistry book that has two forms: a
traditional hardcover book, and an electronic version contained
within an analytical chemistry toolkit program. Today’s students,
technicians, and chemist are all familiar with and daily use a computer.
Many textbooks are being converted to online and electronic
versions where students study the electronic books using
computers or handheld electronics such as Kindles. The book
begins with an introduction to the laboratory including safety,
glassware, and laboratory basics, and then moves through the
fundamentals of analytical techniques such as spectroscopy
and chromatography, most common laboratory instrumentation,
and examples of laboratory programs such as laboratory information
management systems (LIMS). The book also includes a
companion teaching, reference, and toolkit program called
ChemTech-ToolKit. The ChemTech-ToolKit program contains
lesson exercises that stress and review over topics covered in
the book, it contains useful calculators, an interactive periodic
table, and a copy of all of the chapters of the book that can be
opened and read on a computer or handheld electronics such
as a Kindle.
The analytical chemist and technician are an invaluable part of
the chemistry laboratory. He or she is charged with performing
analyses, updating records, taking inventory, documenting projects,
keeping the laboratory clean, updating instrumentation
and analyses, making sure the laboratory is safe, and giving support
to the chief chemist are just a brief description of what the
chemist and technician may be charged with. Choosing a career
as a chemist or technician in any type of laboratory such as environmental,
petroleum, contract, medical, clinical, or biological to
name a few examples can be a very rewarding career. Some positions
are more demanding than others, but most are challenging.
New methods are often needed to be learned or developed. New
instrumentation is needed to be set up and used. The chemist and
technician also need to keep track of the testing that is being performed
and documenting results.
The technicians and chemists in laboratories today are also
routinely using computers on a daily basis. Computers are used
to control instrumentation and record the data that is being
produced. The instrument vendors also often have their own software
used for their instruments that the technician, chemist, or
laboratory worker needs to learn and use on a routine, daily basis.
The personal computer is also used by the chemist and technician
on a daily basis for entering laboratory data and writing reports. It
is pretty safe to say that most students today have been introduced
to the basic operations of the personal computer. A very useful
computer program found in most laboratories today is the LIMS.
LIMS are used to input data; track sample progress; record sample
data such as company, type, and tests needed; and so on. Later
in Chapter 12, we are introduced to a LIMS example that we will
use to log in samples, input data, search samples, approve samples,
and print reports and certificates of analysis (C of A). Also
becoming more common in laboratories are electronic laboratory
notebooks, and we will take a brief look at using them.
This book is a comprehensive study of analytical chemistry as
it pertains to the laboratory analyst and chemist. There are numerous
chapters in the book devoted to the basics of analytical chemistry
and introductions to the laboratory. The book includes an
interactive program called ChemTech-ToolKit for chemists and
laboratory technicians. The program acts as a learning aid as
we move through the various aspects of analytical chemistry laboratory
work and the needed skills to be learned. The ChemTech-
ToolKit program has reference tables and an interactive periodic
table. It has a link to a LIMS program that we will learn to use.
The program also has a review of most of the chapters in this
book. The combination of the ChemTech-ToolKit program and
the chapters in this book can help to prepare the student for a
rewarding career as a chemist or a laboratory technician. The
book is also a useful reference for the established chemist or technician
already working in the laboratory.
The ChemTech-ToolKit program is a teaching tool designed
to equip the chemist, the laboratory analyst, and the technician for
a career in the analytical laboratory whether it is a clinical laboratory,
an industrial, petrochemical, petroleum, environmental,
college or university, or contract laboratory. The book covers the basics of the laboratory including safety, glassware, and balances.
Most of the fundamental aspects of laboratory analysis
are also covered including titrations, chromatography, and instrumental
analyses. Because the ChemTech-ToolKit program contains
key points of most of the chapters, ChemTech-ToolKit can
be used as a reference and toolkit for the chemist and technician
throughout his career. ChemTech-ToolKit progresses from the
basics of laboratory fundamentals in safety and glassware through
advanced laboratory techniques and analyses. The ChemTech-
ToolKit program and the book are a valuable source of reference
material also for the industrial or academic researcher in the
laboratory. The program and book are in a convenient format
for looking up techniques and information in one place for numerous
aspects of the laboratory and of samples whether it is the
analyst, chemist, or researcher using them. The book and program
can also be useful as a supplemental learning source for the college
student studying the sciences such as the chemistry, biology, or
premed student. The combination of this book with the Chem-
Tech-ToolKit programwould be a perfect approach for a community
college that is designing a program that would teach and
prepare laboratory technicians for an associate degree, and is an
undergraduate analytical chemistry textbook.
The book also meets the need of an undergraduate or graduate
level analytical chemistry class as all the main topics of analytical
chemistry are covered.
Bryan M. Ham