Sampling and Sample Preparation: Practical Guide for Analytical Chemists

✍ Scribed by DR. Markus Stoeppler (auth.), Dr. Markus Stoeppler (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 215
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book describes in great detail sampling and sample preparation in routine and research. All chapters are written for practitioners by experts in the field. The book provides well-documented and illustrated procedures for sampling and sample preparation prior to trace metal analysis. A careful selection of appropriate references to pitfalls, methods and strategies furnishes the information for a proper performance of the most crucial steps of any analytical procedure.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Sampling: an Introduction....Pages 1-6
Human Specimens....Pages 7-12
Wet Precipitation: Rain and Snow....Pages 13-25
Sampling of Sea and Fresh Water for the Analysis of Trace Elements....Pages 26-42
Soils and Soil Solutions....Pages 43-56
Waste....Pages 57-73
Collection, Preparation and Long-Term Storage of Marine Samples....Pages 74-87
Biological Samples....Pages 88-107
Sampling of Industrial Material (Sampling for the Balancing of Elements in the Cement Industry)....Pages 108-121
Food Products of Animal and Plant Origin....Pages 122-131
Sample Preparation: an Introduction....Pages 132-141
Pressure Digestion: Apparatus, Problems and Applications....Pages 142-154
Microwave-Assisted Decomposition....Pages 155-166
Decomposition Methods for the Electrochemical Determination of Elements....Pages 167-182
Decomposition [of Materials] for Trace Analysis in the Cement Industry....Pages 183-198
Back Matter....Pages 199-202

✦ Subjects

Analytical Chemistry; Ecotoxicology; Food Science; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences