Trace Environmental Quantitative Analysis - Principles, Techniques, and Applications

This study offers insight into the principles of trace environmental quantitative analysis (TEQA), focusing on data reduction and interpretation, sample preparation and instrumental analysis from a wide range of matrices, including sludge, sediment, oil and air, as well as ground, waste and surface water. It draws on the author's own research with metal chelate solid-phase extraction. "Containing more than 1000 references, equations, tables, and drawings, Trace Environmental Quantitative Analysis introduces methods of instrument calibration and interpretation ... compares the latest innovations in statistically based approaches to instrument detection limits ... discusses the principles of good laboratory practice ... develops techniques of liquid-liquid extraction ... details solid-phase extraction and microextraction ... contrasts atomic absorption with emission spectroscopy ... explains suppressed ion chromatography ... and more."--Jacket "This book provides important insight into the principles of trace environmental quantitative analysis (TEQA), focusing on data reduction and interpretation, sample preparation, and instrumental analysis from a wide range of matrices, including sludge, sediment, soil, and air, as well as ground, waste, and surface water - drawing on the author's own research with metal chelate solid-phase extraction." Provides insight into the principles of trace environmental quantitative analysis (TEQA), with emphasis on data reduction and interpretation, sample preparation, and instrumental analysis from a number of matrices. Compares the latest innovations in statistically-based approaches and covers the principles of good laboratory practice. A study of the principles of trace environmental quantitative analysis (TEQA), focusing on data reduction and interpretation, sample preparation and instrumental analysis from a wide range of matrices, including sludge, sediment, oil and air, as well as ground, waste and surface water. The latter half of the twentieth century has taken the United States and other developed nations from a postindustrial era to a new age that some people refer to as a period that is rich in information technology.