Reagent Chemicals: Specifications and Procedures for Reagents and Standard-Grade Reference Materials (ACS Professional Reference Book) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0841230455 ISBN 13: 9780841230453

Publisher: OUP USA, 2016

Synopsis

The American Chemical Society (ACS) Committee on Analytical Reagents sets the specifications for most chemicals used in analytical testing. Currently, the ACS is the only organization in the world that sets requirements and develops validated methods for determining the purity of reagent chemicals. These specifications have also become the de facto standards for chemicals used in many high-purity applications. Publications and organizations that set specifications or promulgate analytical testing methods-such as the United States Pharmacopeia and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-specify that ACS reagent-grade purity be used in their test procedures.

The Eleventh Edition incorporates the "supplements" accumulated over the past eight years, removes some obsolete test methods, improves instructions for many existing ones, and also introduces some new methods. Overall, the safety, accuracy, or ease of use in specifications for about 70 of the 430 listed reagents has been improved, and seven new reagents have been added.

About this title

About the Author

Paul A. Bouis has served as the chair of the ACS Reagent Chemicals Committee since 1992. He received his PhD from University of Tennessee-Knoxville.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0841230455
• ISBN 13: 9780841230453
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 856
• Editor: Bouis Paul