Trace Environmental Quantitative Analysis: Including Student-Tested Experiments

ISBN-13: 9780367445331 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 738 str.

Paul R. Loconto

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A thorough and timely update, this new edition presents principles, techniques and applications in this sub-discipline of analytical chemistry for quantifying traces of potentially toxic organic and inorganic chemical substances found in air, soil, fish and water as well as serum, plasma, urine, and other body fluids. 

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Preface to the Third Edition. About the Author. About the Contributors. Chapter 1 Introduction to Trace Environmental Quantitative Analysis (TEQA). Chapter 2 Calibration, Verification, Quantification, Statistical Treatment of Analytical Data, Detection Limits, and Quality Assurance/ Quality Control. Chapter 3 Sample Preparation Techniques to Isolate and Recover Organics and Inorganics. Chapter 4 Determinative Techniques to Measure Organics and Inorganics. Chapter 5 Student- Tested Laboratory Experiments. Appendix A: Glossary. Appendix B: QA/ QC Illustrated. Appendix C: A Primer on the Basics of Probability and Statistics for Some and a Quick Review for Others. Appendix D: Quality Control for Environmental- Health TEQA: Levey– Jennings Plots and Westgard Rules. Appendix E: Innovative Sample Prep Flow Charts for TEQA. Appendix F: Quantitating VOCs in Serum Using Automated Headspace-SPME/ Cryo- Focusing/ Isotope Dilution/ Capillary GC-MS. Appendix G: Using a Pooled Standard Deviation to Find the Uncertainty in the Percent Recovery for the Priority Pollutant Phenol Using Reversed- Phase SPE from Spiked Water by Converting Phenol to its Pyrazol- 3- One Complex: Comparing In Situ vs. Synthesized Experimental Approaches. Appendix H: Laboratory Glass & Instrument Designs. Appendix I: Useful Potpourri for Environmental Analytical Chemists. Appendix J: Contributing Authors: Brief Introduction. Index.