Chemical Technician's Ready Reference Handbook, 4th Revised edition--------------------------------------------------The definitive reference of laboratory safety, analytic procedures,and instrumentation techniques for the modern chemical laboratory.Cited in BCL3, the new edition contains expanded chapters on gas chromatography(GC) and high- performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and physicalproperties and testing methods, with a new chapter on thermal analyticmethods as well as on electrophoresis. Also includes up- to-date informationon the role of chemical laboratory technicians and chemical processoperators in industry and current data on laboratory safety, chemicalwaste disposal, government regulations, and ISO-9000. Explains in detailthe day-to-day procedures, techniques, and formulas of today's chemicallaboratory. The new edition (2nd was 1981), emphasizing the importanceof safety, has been expanded to include additional information on materialsafety data sheets, chemical waste disposal, Right-to-Know regulations,and the National Fire Protection Association codes. Also new is materialon such topics as gas chromatography, high-performance liquid chromatography,infrared spectroscopy, atomic absorption spectroscopy, and computersin the laboratory.--------------------------------------------------Author Biography: Gershon J. Shugar is a professor emeritus of engineeringtechnologies at Essex County College, Newark, New Jersey. In 1947,Dr. Shugar founded a chemical manufacturing business that became thelargest exclusive pearlescent pigment manufacturing company in theUnited States. In 1968, he was appointed assistant professor of chemistryat Rutgers University, where he taught until his appointment at EssexCounty College. Jack T. Ballinger, Ed.D., is a professor of chemistryat St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley, St. Louis Missouri.Dr. Ballinger has taught both chemistry and chemical technology coursesfor the past 29 years. He implemented one of only six chemical technologyprograms in the United States to be certified by the American ChemicalSociety. Professor Ballinger has eight years of industrial chemicalexperience, ranging from the petroleum industry to packaging materials.