The use of instrumentation is an exciting and fascinating part of chemical analysis that
interacts with all the areas of chemistry and with many other fields of pure and applied
science. Analyses of Martian soils, the body fluids of racehorses and Olympic athletes,
the engine oil of commercial and military jet aircraft, and even the Shroud of Turin are
examples of problems that require instrumental techniques. Often it is necessary to use
several instrumental techniques to obtain the information required to solve an analytical
problem.
Analytical instrumentation plays an important role in the production and evaluation of
new products and in the protection of consumers and the environment. Instrumentation
provides the lower detection limits required to assure safe foods, drugs, water, and air.
The manufacture of materials whose composition must be known precisely, such as the
substances used in integrated circuit chips, is monitored by analytical instruments. The
large sample through puts made possible by automated instrumentation often relieve the
analyst of the tedious tasks associated with chemical analysis. Thus, the analyst is freed
to examine components of the analytical system, such as sampling methods, data
treatment and the evaluation of results.
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