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analytical chemistry has undergone a considerable amount of change in the equipment and procedures used. Generally analytical chemistry is concerned with the detection and identification of atoms, ions or radicals that of which a substance is composed, the compounds they form, and the proportions of these compounds that are present in a given substance. The editors define analytical chemistry as the measurement, characterization and mapping of chemical species or sys­tems varying from (1) the components of life, such as proteins, carbohydrates, nucleic acids, clinical samples, biomedi­cal spectroscopy, forensics; (2) threats and safeguards to life as in chemical weapons agents, pesticides, environ­ment, industrial hygiene and forensics; (3) life critical or enhancing analyses, such as food and pharmaceuticals; and (4) analyses required by industry, such as coatings, particle size, polymers, rubbers, metals, pulp and paper, process, petroleum and surfaces. The techniques utilized span the in-situ analysis of soil, water, waste, air and the human body, to laboratory analyses, remote sensing and stellar spectroscopy.

This major reference work, an epoch in a practical and summary statement of basic methods and procedures in many material sciences, will become a foremost location for baseline descriptions of chief features of analytical chemistry. The contributors to Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry: Applications, Theory and Instrumentation included over 800 authors, more than 600 peer reviewers, 42 Section Editors and 13 distinguished Board Members and Advisors worked on the production of the Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry: Applications, Theory and Instrumentation for more than three years. Their objective was to prepare the largest, most comprehensive compendium of analytical chemistry ever. Indeed, this work has twice the bulk and breadth of any other such compendium, such that a chemist (organic, polymer, inorganic, biochemist, molecular biologist as well as, of course, an analytical chemist), or a physicist or engineer (environmental, industrial or materials) can find all the essential information required to analyze any analyte in any matrix for any purpose or application, interpret the results and also to gain a thorough knowledge of the theory and instrumentation utilized.