Quantitative Chemical Analysis (Hardcover)

by Daniel C. Harris (Author)

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Product Description
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

About the Author
DANIEL C. HARRIS, Michelson Laboratory, China Lake, California. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 899 pages
• Publisher: W.H. Freeman & Company; 5th edition (August 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0716728818
• ISBN-13: 978-0716728818
• Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 8.2 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #726,696 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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40 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	E. G. Olmstead (Western KS, United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Just About Identical as the 6th edition, December 11, 2006

By	D. Lancaster (bryan, texas United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I just took a class that required this textbook, and I used the 6th edition instead of the 7th, and there was only one difference.... in the 6th edition, 2 topics were seperated into 2 different chapters, and in the 7th the two topics were combined into one chapter... If your a student and need this book for class, save yourself some money and buy the 6th edition. The word and homework problems are identical.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

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

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

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!