Introduction to Instrumental Methods of Analysis

The book provides background information about separation and separation science its scope and major applications and ways of classifying separation methods and their basic principles used to effect separations of various sample types. Furthermore the book discusses about chromatographic separation methods including historical background ways of classifying chromatography and basic principles of chromatography. Particularly it provides detail discussion of the theory of Paper Chromatography Thin-layer Chromatography and Column Chromatography such gas-chromatography (GC) and High-Performance-Liquid-Chromatography (HPLC). In addition the book incorporates unit objectives activities and self-assessment questions along with their answer keys.