CHEM13027  Analytical Instrumentation

The following analytical techniques are studied: X-ray fluorescence and diffraction techniques; source applications, sample preparation, X-ray crystallography: electroanalytic techniques; cells, potentials, reference electrodes, electrode types, ion-selective electrodes: chromatographic techniques; column, thin-layer, HPLC, ion and HPIC, gel permeation chromatography, gas chromatography, theory and practice, identification by gas chromatography, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry: chemometric methods; analysis of variance, regression, optimisation methods: computing and computer control of instrumentation; interfaces, analog/digital conversion, application of microprocessors. Distance education students will be required to attend a residential school for this course.

Text: Willard, Merritt & Dean, Instrumental Methods of Analysis, Van Nostrand, 7th edition, 1988.