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Instrumental Analysis

• The course is designed to introduce the student to modern methods

of instrumental analysis
• In modern analytical chemistry. The focus of the course is in trace
analysis, and therefore methods for the identification, separation
and quantitation of trace substances will be described.
Scope and Relevancy of
Instrumental Analysis
• Approximately 66% of all products and services
delivered in the US rely on chemical analyses
of one sort or another
• Approximately 250,000,000 chemical
determinations are performed in the US each
day
– NIST, 1991, from Managing the Modern Laboratory, 1(1), 1995, 1-9.