Publisher's Synopsis
This book teaches the basic concepts of separation and instrumentation with a minimum of mathematics and theory.;The book first describes bulk and molecular properties of matter and how these properties control the design of separation. Chapter two covers the most important separation in chemical analysis, gas chromatography.;Emphasizing reverse phase liquid absorption methods, the third chapter offers a treatment of HPLC. Chapter four deals with phase diagrams, instrumentation and stationary phases of supercritical fluid chromatography. The final chapter introduces electophoresis. An appendix contains sampling and calibration methods.