The world's best-selling introduction to the tools and techniques of analytical chemistry is back in a new edition. Thoroughly revised and including cutting-edge research methods, the book retains the author's witty, personable writing style of the earlier editions. It is loaded with real-life examples, beginning with a chemical analysis of how much caffeine is in a chocolate bar, and includes many more problems - hundreds on CD-ROM along with spreadsheet data files - and a handy chapter on calibration