Handbook of Basic Tables for Chemical Analysis, Second Edition

Rating:
Summary: Worthy update of the first edition
Review: A long-awaited update of the 1989 first edition. Professional chemists should seriously consider updating to this edition, if they found the previous one useful. Many sections have substantial additions, as you'd expect in any science over such a time.

But the authors have also added entire new sections. On lab safety. Perhaps they'd earlier assumed that this was outside the book's scope? Other new material covers electrophoresis and electroanalysis. These fields have seen significant work in the past decade. Also, job-wise, many chemists might have responsibilities in these areas, and the book tries to reflect this.