Select the Right Analytical Instruments to Optimize Scientific and Engineering Projects and Research The Handbook of Analytical Instruments offers scientists and engineers a complete guide to the principles and building blocks of today's high-tech instruments, so that they can select the right analytical tools to optimize their projects and research. This expert resource covers instrumentation basics and recent advances, such as biosensors!gamma spectrometers! and visualization methods for electrophoresis. The book takes readers through flame photometers, radiochemical instruments, automated chemical analysis systems, blood gas analyzers, digital circuits, and much more. Filled with 100 detailed illustrations, the Handbook of Analytical Instruments fully explores: The integration of microcontrollers and personal computers, resulting in improved recording techniques and display systems Advances in spectrophotometry, leading to ever-decreasing sample size and multi-sample analytical techniques The latest electrochemical instruments_with greater speed, accuracy, and automation Get Quick Access to Today's Most Powerful Analytical Instruments / Fundamentals of Analytical Instruments / Colorimeters and Spectrophotometers / Infrared Spectrophotometers / Flame Photometers / Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometers / Fluorimeters and Phosphorimeters / Raman Spectrometers / Photoacoustic and Photothermal Spectrometers / Mass Spectrometers / Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometers / Electron Spin Resonance Spectrometers / Electron and Ion Spectroscopy / Radiochemical Instruments / X-Ray Spectrometers / Automated Chemical Analysis Systems / Gas Chromatographs / Liquid Chromatographs / Thermo-Analytical Instruments / Electrophoresis Apparatus and Densitometers / Electrochemical Instruments / pH Meters and Ion Analyzers / Blood Gas Analyzers / Industrial Gas Analyzers / Environmental Pollution Monitoring Instruments / Electronic Devices and Circuits / Digital Circuits / Computer-Based Analytical Instruments