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About the Book:
The book is designed for the
undergraduate and postgraduate students of basic and applied sciences and the
analysts of the laboratories who analyze samples of their interests. There is
great diversity in the nature of the samples to be analyzed viz. medicines and
pharmaceuticals, blood and urine, food and drinking water, pesticides and
fertilizers, cosmetics and perfumes, soaps and detergents and many more.
Nevertheless, there is a basic thread of similarity in the analysis of all such
substances, despite so great diversity. This 'thread of similarity' has its
origin in the logic that quantitative analysis of any substance involves the
same basic principles and the gamut of operations e.g. withdrawing genuinely
representative samples and aliquots, weighing samples and reagents, filtration,
distillation, calibration, titration and so on. All these aspects in turn come
under the domain of the subject of analytical chemistry. Therefore, an
understanding of the subject of analytical chemistry shall help an analyst,
irrespective of his or her being a student or researcher or professional, in
acquiring mastery in the task. This book has been conceived and written keeping
primarily this aspect at the back of the mind.
The
Chapters of the book are organized in four Parts. The first one is for the
fundamentals of quantitative analysis. The second one focuses on the
preparation of standard solutions of the reagents that find frequent use in a
quantitative analysis laboratory. The third part is devoted to instrumental
methods of analysis, while the last one is on errors which often creep in the
analysis, sometimes inadvertently, and mar the results that are eventually
reported.
Derivation
of a formula used in calculations following an analysis is explained in lucid
terms along with explicit illustrations for the purpose of better
comprehension. Model calculations with worked out solutions are aimed at
enabling the readers in handling such problems at ease. |
Contents:
Part I - Theoretical Aspects
1.
Introduction
2.
Concentrations
of Solutions
3.
Basic
Principles of Quantitative Analysis
4.
Titrimetric
Analysis
5.
Acid Base
Titrimetry
6.
Nonaqueous
Acid Base Titrimetry
7.
Oxidation
Reduction Titrimetry
8.
Precipitation
Titrimetry
9.
Complexometric
Titrimetry
Part II - Standard Solutions
10. Primary and Secondary Standard Solutions
11. Preparation of Standard Solutions
Part III - Instrumental Methods of
Analysis
12. Colorimetry and UV-Visible Absorption Spectrophotometry
13. Flame Photometry
14. Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry
15. Potentiometry
16. Polarography
Part IV - Errors in Quantitative
Analyses
Errors in Analyses - Evaluation and Minimization |
About the Author:
D K
Sarkar had his Master and Doctorate from Indian
Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. He started his career as a
Scientist in Coromandel Indag Research Centre, Padappai, Tamil Nadu (now
International Institute of Biotechnology and Toxicology, IIBT) and continued
there for a short stint of few years. With teaching as his primary instinct and
passion, Dr Sarkar joined Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University (formerly
Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University) as an Assistant Professor and taught
both at Under Graduate and Post Graduate level for more than three decades.
After retirement from active service from the University, Dr Sarkar joined Sri
Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu College of Agricultural Sciences, SSR Puram, Etcherla,
Andhra Pradesh (affiliated to Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University) in
late 2016 as the Associate Dean of the College and continued there for three
years. In the College, He was intensely involved in classroom teaching in
quenching his thirst for teaching, notwithstanding the large chunk of
administrative duties as are to be handled by the first Associate Dean of a
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