| Foreword | |
| Introduction To Analytical Chemistry:Analytical Chemistry today | |
| Analytical chemical information | |
| Analytical chemical references | |
| Essential features of Analytical Chemistry: Basic elements | |
| Fundamentals | |
| Key words | |
| Developments | |
| Placement | |
| Boundaries | |
| Evolution of Analytical Chemistry | |
| Conceptual and technical hierarchies | |
| Classifications | |
| Questions | |
| Seminars | |
| Suggested readings | |
| Analytical Properties:Introduction | |
| The chemical metrological hierarchy: uncertainty and trueness | |
| Errors in Analytical Chemistry | |
| Capital analytical properties: Accuracy | |
| Representativeness | |
| Basic analytical properties:Precision | |
| Sensivity | |
| Selectivity | |
| Accessory analytical properties: Expeditiousness | |
| Cost-effectiveness | |
| Personnel-related factors | |
| Relationships among analytical properties: Hierarchical relationships | |
| Foundation relationships | |
| Contradictory relationships | |
| Complementary relationships | |
| Other analytical properties | |
| Questions | |
| Seminars: Numerical problems | |
| Suggested readings | |
| Traceability: Reference Materials:Introduction | |
| The integral concept of traceability | |
| Physical and chemical traceability | |
| Types of standards and their traceability | |
| Analytical chemical standards: Types | |
| General properties | |
| Preparation and storage | |
| Uses | |
| Specific meanings of traceability: Traceability of analytical result | |
| Traceability of a sample (aliquot) | |
| Traceability of an instrument | |
| Traceability of a sample standard | |
| Traceability of a method | |
| Relationships among traceability meanings | |
| Questions | |
| Seminars | |
| Suggested readings | |
| The Measurement Process In Chemistry: Definition of chemical measurement process | |
| General steps of a chemical measurement process | |
| Preliminary operations: General features | |
| Sub-steps | |
| Sample collection | |
| Sample treatment | |
| Measurement and transducing of the analytical signal | |
| Signal acquisition and data processing | |
| Validation of a chemical measurement process | |
| Salient current trends.-Annexes I - VI | |
| Questions | |
| Seminars | |
| Suggested readings | |
| Qualitative Aspects Of Analytical Chemistry:Introduction | |
| The binary response: Types of binary response | |
| Quantitative connotations | |
| Analytical features | |
| Errors:false positives and false negatives | |
| Types of qualitative identification | |
| Standards and calibration in qualitative analysis | |
| Classical qualitative analysis: General notions | |
| Types of reagents | |
| Analytical schemes | |
| Instrumental qualitative analysis: General notions | |
| Static systems | |
| Dynamic systems | |
| Questions | |
| Seminars | |
| Suggested readings | |
| Quantitative Aspects Of Analytical Chemistry:Fundamentals: Introduction | |
| Analytical properties | |
| Equipment and method calibration | |
| Classical and instrumental quantitative analysis | |
| Quantitation methodologies | |
| Expressing quantitative results | |
| Calculable quantitation methods: Absolute methods involving no analytical standard | |
| Absolute methods involving analytical standards | |
| Relative quantitation methods: Interpolation and extrapolation methods | |
| Comparative methods | |
| Questions | |
| Seminars | |
| Suggested readings | |
| The Analytical Problem:Introduction | |
| Meanings of "problem" in Analytical Chemistry | |
| Integral definition of analytical problem | |
| Elements of the analytical problem | |
| Steps of the analytical problem-solving process: Identifying and confirming the information required | |
| Pinpointing the analytical information required | |
| Planning the analytical approach | |
| Monitoring the results | |
| Implementing corrective actions | |
| Consistency between required information and supplied information | |
| The analytical problem in the context of quality | |
| Questions | |
| Seminars | |
| Suggested readings | |
| Analytical Chemistry And Quality:Introduction | |
| A generic approach to quality: Integral definition of quality | |
| Types of quality | |
| Quality compromises | |
| Structure of quality | |
| Benefits of quality | |
| General aspects of quality in Analytical Chemistry: Types of quality in Analytical Chemistry | |
| Quality and analytical properties | |
| Quality and the analytical problem | |
| Quality systems in the analytical laborat | |
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