Practical skills in chemistry / John Dean ... [et al.].
Material type: TextPublication details: Harlow ; New York : Pearson Education, 2011.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xvii, 569 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cmISBN:- 0273731181 (pbk.)
- 9780273731184 (pbk.)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
If you are studying chemistry, or a related course such as forensic chemistry or biochemistry, then this book will be an indispensable companion throughout your entire degree programme. This 'one-stop' text will guide you through the wide range of practical, analytical and data handling skills that you will need during your studies. It will also give you a solid grounding in the wider transferable skills such as teamwork and study skills.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of boxes
- Preface
- Guided tour
- For the Student
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Study and examination skills
- The importance of transferable skills
- Managing your time
- Working with others
- Taking notes from lectures and texts
- Learning and revising
- Curriculum options, assessments and exams
- Preparing your curriculum vitae
- Information technology and library resources
- Finding and citing published information
- Evaluating information
- Using on-line resources
- Internet resources for chemistry
- Using spreadsheets
- Word processors, databases and other packages
- Communicating information
- Organizing a poster display
- Giving a spoken presentation
- General aspects of scientific writing
- Writing essays
- Reporting practical and project work
- Writing literature surveys and reviews
- Fundamental laboratory techniques
- Your approach to practical work
- Health and safety
- Working with liquids
- Basic laboratory procedures I
- Basic laboratory procedures II
- Principles of solution chemistry
- pH and buffer solutions
- The investigative approach
- Making and recording measurements
- SI units and their use
- Scientific method and design of experiments
- Project work
- Laboratory Techniques
- Melting points
- Recrystallization
- Solvent extraction
- Distillation
- Reflux
- Evaporation
- Inert atmosphere techniques
- Combinatorial chemistry
- Classical Techniques
- Qualitative techniques for inorganic analysis
- Gravimetry
- Procedures in volumetric analysis
- Acid-Base titrations
- Complexometric titrations
- Redox titrations
- Precipitation titrations
- Analytical quantitative techniques
- Fundamental principles of quantitative chemical analysis
- Calibration and quantitative analysis
- Basic spectroscopy
- Atomic spectroscopy
- X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy
- Chromatography - basic principles
- Gas and liquid chromatography*
- Electrophoresis
- Electroanalytical techniques
- Radioactive isotopes and their uses
- Analytical structural techniques
- Infrared spectroscopy
- Nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry
- Mass spectrometry
- Thermal analysis
- Analysis and presentation of data
- Using graphs
- Presenting data in tables
- Hints for solving numerical problems
- Descriptive statistics
- Choosing and using statistical tests
- Drawing chemical structures
- Chemometrics
- Computational chemistry
- Answers to problems
- Index