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Reagent Chemicals
American Chemical Society Specifications
Ninth Edition

• Updated for January 2000 with official ACS CONTENTS

Committee on Analytical Reagents specifications.
DEFINITIONS, PROCEDURES, STANDARDS,
• New section on standard grade reference materials
AND
containing over 400 standards with their require-
SPECIFICATIONS
ments and tests.
1. Introduction and Definitions: Reagents for
• Specifies reagents suitable for use in ultra-trace
Special Purposes, Containers, Interpretation of
analysis.
Requirements, Precautions for Tests
• Includes new analytical techniques of mass,
2. General Directions and Procedures: Gravimetric
infrared and plasma emission spectroscopy.
Method for Determining Small Amounts of
• Extensive Tables.
Impurities, Measurement of Physical Properties,
The latest edition of this indispensable reference continues in the Colorimetry and Turbidimetry, Trace and
traditions of the previous volumes, providing detailed specifica- Ultratrace Elemental Analysis, Direct
tions and analytical procedures for approximately 450 laboratory Electrometric Methods, Titrimetry: Electrometric
reagents, while updating some of the more complicated classical
procedures for trace analysis and adding instrumental methods End-Point Detection, Chromatography,
where possible. Recommended Chromatography Procedures,
New to Reagent Chemicals, 9th hditiotr.The addition of otan- Infrared Spectroscopy
dard-grade reference materials at the request of the EPA and The
Chemical Reference Materials Manufacturers Association, featuring 3. Reagent Solutions: Preparation: Reagent Water,
400 specified standards in a section separate from the traditional Water, Reagent Solutions, Solid Reagent
reagent chemicals. Mixtures, Control and Standard Solutions,
Other important additions include reagents for use in ultra trace Reagent Chemicals
analysis, such as sub-boiled acids packaged in Teflon containers,
and new analytical techniques such as plasma emission spec- 4. Volumetric Solutions: Preparation and
troscopy and "clean room" analytical procedures that are required Standardization
in the use of these reagents. This rigorous volume, with its many 5. Registered Trademarks
specifications, up-to-date procedures, and constant improvement
through years of research, is an essential tool in assuring the 6. References
required quality of your reagent chemicals and another step SPECIFICATIONS FOR REAGENT CHEMICALS
towards the worldwide unification of reagent chemicals specifica- Requirements and Tests
tions.
SPECIFICATIONS FOR STANDARD-GRADE
REFERENCE MATERIALS
(An American Chemical Society Publication)
September 1999 768 pp.; 113 line illus Requirements and Tests
32. 0-8412-3671-2 $165.00w/$132.00

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