Quantitative Chemical Analysis [Hardcover]

Daniel C. Harris (Author), Harris (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0716728818 | ISBN-13: 978-0716728818 | Publication Date: January 1998 | Edition: 5th

The world's best-selling introduction to the tools and techniques of analytical chemistry is back in a new edition. Thoroughly revised and including cutting-edge research methods, the book retains the author's witty, personable writing style of the earlier editions. It is loaded with real-life examples, beginning with a chemical analysis of how much caffeine is in a chocolate bar, and includes many more problems - hundreds on CD-ROM along with spreadsheet data files - and a handy chapter on calibration

Product Details

• Hardcover: 899 pages
• Publisher: W.H. Freeman & Company; 5th edition (January 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0716728818
• ISBN-13: 978-0716728818
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.1 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #688,184 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #51 in Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Chemistry > Physical & Theoretical > Quantum Chemistry

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51 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent analytical chemistry book, February 6, 2003

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E. G. Olmstead (Western KS, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Quantitative Chemical Analysis (Hardcover)

One of the best written textbooks in any area of chemistry. Here is a measure of the quality of this book. When I was graduate school, most of our research group owned a copy of Harris and we kept it on our shelves for handy reference. We had all purchased it as undergraduates but kept it because we LIKED it and found it so darn useful. It is an excellent general reference for anybody whose work involves chemical analysis. The tables of acid dissociation constants and redox half-potentials are some of the most extensive you will find any textbook.

When I first started teaching, I used Skoog & West on the basis of my predecessor's recommendation. However, during my first semester, I found myself constantly referring to Harris because of its clear explainations and good examples. In the second semester, I conducted a head-to-head competition with students reading a chapter on the same material from both Harris and from Skoog. The overwhelming student preference was for Harris and I have used it in my classes ever since. Readers who don't like Harris aren't going to be happy with any analytical chemistry textbook.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The new analytical standard., December 23, 2001

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Doc Bailey (Davenport, IA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Quantitative Chemical Analysis (Hardcover)

This book has become the new standard for both quantatitive and instrumental analysis courses. Goodby, Skoog!

The textbook (in different editions) has been used for our Quantatitive Analysis course for several years, with excellent results.

I am currently adopting it for my Instrumental Methods of Analysis course. Although I will need to suppliment some material (FTNMR is not covered, for example), the main important instrumental techniques ARE covered very well - straight and to the point!

As for the prior poor reviews, well the problem seems to me to be in the student, not the textbook!

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars **THE** Analytical Book!, June 18, 2000

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teva_man "teva_man" (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Quantitative Chemical Analysis (Hardcover)

Jeez, I can't believe some people don't like this text! It's always been one of my faves, and ditto for my colleagues! In all the years I was in school, I never ran across a text that was written with such a friendly tone, and simultaneously discussed difficult concepts so clearly. Harris' discussions of acid/base and complexometric chemistry is particularly nice, and he even goes out of his way to discuss the preparation of around 30 a/b indicator solutions. Not something you'd find in every text! The problems given at the end of each chapter were great and usually very fun to do (as opposed to Pchem problems, which always made me want to shoot myself). The new edition (1998) was a nice expansion of the previous ones, and I can't recommend it highly enough. BRAVO, Daniel!