Chapwrs are ordcwd in a fcmiliar fkshton .\n inrrodurrion rstablnshing the nardre of rhr analysis process, TPYWWF ~ #hfn s ~ eso. lutlon chrmisrrv, e r r o r s a n d s r a t l s r r r i , and an e x t t n s ~ v e presentation of equilibrium concepts and applications make up the first portion of the text. The rigorous approach to doing equilibrium calculations along with approximations is presented and illustrated with solubility calculations of increasing complexity. A single chapter on gravimetry followed by nine chapters an the theory and applications of titrimetry appear next. One chapter eaeh an patentiometry and eledrogravimetry and coulometry make up the treatment of electroanalytical chemistry. Next fallows five chapters an spectroscopy (instrumentation and theory, molecular ahsorotion. fluorescence. and atomic s h s a r ~ t i a nand emission). 'The next thrrc chnpwrs'covrr iepnmtwn t&hnlqueu rrrractmn and ion exrhmgr ,sn intndurtlon I,, chrumatumaphy, s d app11rutwns ofrhronutug-l-aphy gc and lc Aehnprrr ahour ehrmncnls apparatus and unit operations and a chapter providing instructions for a variety of traditional methods of analysis conclude the text. A set of appendices providing data, mathematical reviews, and a treatment of normality and equivalent weight is included. The writing is clear and concise. Numerous worked-out examples are provided in eaeh chapter. Answers to about half of the exercises a t the end of each chapter are given. The authors state that mast chapters can stand alone; thus, instructors can reorganize material to fit their particular situations. Changes appear in the sixth edition. Additional material has been added to the statistics chapter and the chapter on atomic spectroscopy. Some derivations have been placed in separate Features sections. Computer applications found in the fifth edition have been deleted because a separate text, using Mathcad, has been published by one of the authors. The Features sections include more examples of analytical chemistry in diverse fields in addition to extended explanations of complex ideas, historical notes, and derivations. Concern continues to he expressed (e.g., see editorial in Analytical Chemistry, July 1, 1994) about the disproportionate share allotted to equilibrium calculations and titrimetry in introductory analytical courses and texts. What analytical chemists do is not being communicated s u f f k i e n t l This text-although giving cansiderahle emphasis to titrimetry and corresponding equilibriadoes provide excellent presentations of f u n d a m e n t a l s of electroanalytical chemistry, spectroscopy, and chromatography with e x a m ~ l e ofcantemoorarv s Those eontemolatine ,adications. ,. changes awav from ~ r d d ~ t ttupics ~ ~ ~ in a lt h r ~ v ~ o u r s r s ~ wi.1 t i l l find thistvrt r f i c t i r r tool for srurlrnrs to u.;c in Iesrnlngahout an:%lytieal chemistry. ~
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to enhance public understanding of science. The participants also considered how to narrow the gap between historians of science on the one hand and chemical educators on the other as well as how to make the history of chemistry more relevant to its intended audience. Now most of the papers presented a t the conference plus a numher of additional essays, 18 in all (by 18 contributors, five ofwhom are women), have appeared in the third volume of "The Chemical Sciences in Society" series ( h o l d Thackray, series editor). Varying in form, content, and length (from three to 58 pp), some report detailed, original research; some provide general plans for future research in major areas of scholarship; and some reflect on the opportunities and challenges facing historians of the chemical seiences and industries and their audiences. Each essay is well documented, and the book includes a n 11payr hlhl~ngrnphyand a ninc-page twocolumns prr pag*, index. Thls wlumt udl be of mrerest ro hmronnns of ehrm>stryand uf suenct.. chemlsti cuncerned w t h the h l . x m ~ofthmr sriencr, high school and college chemical educators, science policy-makers, and everyone concerned with the role of chemistry in modern society.
George 0. Kauffman California State University, Fresno Fresno. CA 93740
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John Ganchoff Elmhurst College Elmhurst. IL 60126
Chemical Sciences in the Modern World Seymour H. Mauskopf, Editor. Univenity of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, PA, 1993. Illus. xxii + 417 pp. 15.0 x 22.8 cm. $39.95. "Chemical Sciences in the Modern World," a wide-ranginginternational conference on the history of chemistry sponsored by the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry, organized by Seymour H. Mauskopf, Professor of History at Duke University, and Robert E. Kohler, Professor of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and attended by distinguished historians afchemistrv and chemists from the United States. Canada. France. Germanr Great Britain. and Israel as well as seleading scholars ofthe modern chemical sciences was to elicit new insights on the challenges facing historians of science and on ways
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