Progress in Analytical Chemistry

Volume 8 in the series Progress in AnaZyticaZ Chemistry presents a selection of the papers given at the 1975 Eastern Analytical Symposium. The analytical chemist is under constant pressure not only from the research chemist whose sampIes he must characterize and control, but also from an ever-increasing group of governmental agencies stimulated by public concern over health and environmental problems, to determine the most sophisticated kinds of compounds as lower and lower levels. The subjects covered in these papers are wide-ranging, from the analysis of incinerator effluents to the determination of drugs in blood, but through them runs a common theme, the appli cation of the latest instrumental techniques to the problems of analysis. The authors show how successful they have been in rising to the analytical challenges pre sented by an increasingly complex world. The editors take this opportunity to thank them for their efforts in producing such excellent papers for publication in so short a time. Dur special appreciation goes to Dr. M. W. Miller, who acted as program chairman, and his team of session chairmen: P. R. Brown, L. J. Cline Love, C. Horvath, J. R. Lindsay, and T. C. Rains.

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Analysis of Metals and Alloys for Major Constituents and Trace Elements by Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy.- Trace Metal Analysis in Clinical Chemistry.- The Analysis of Glasses, Refractories, Ceramics, and Related Materials by Atomic Spectroscopy.- An Overview of the Determination of Environmental Constituents from the Viewpoint of a Chemist.- Characterization of Municipal Incinerator Effluents.- Trace Element Levels in Southern New Jersey Drinking Waters.- Separations of Biochemical Interest Using Bonded Microparticle Ion Exchangers.- Problems of Liquid Sampling in Gas Chromatography.- Gas-Solid Chromatography: Application, Uniqueness and Versatility.- The Use of GC-MS Techniques for the Analysis of Therapeutic Agents in Blood.- Analytical Applications of a New Spectroscopic Tool: Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy (CARS).- Progress in the Vibrational Spectroscopy of Complex Systems.- Measurement and Applications of Fluorescence Lifetimes in the Nanosecond Range Using the Time Correlated Single Photon Technique.- Luminescence Techniques in Drug Analysis.