Chemical Analysis: Second Edition is an essential introduction to a wide range of analytical techniques and instruments. Assuming little in the way of prior knowledge, this text carefully guides the reader through the more widely used and important techniques, whilst avoiding excessive technical detail. Covering both instrumental techniques and the situations in which they are used, the text strives to maintain a balance between breadth and depth of coverage. Carefully structured, this book clearly differentiates between separation and spectral methods, and includes a section on more specialised techniques. The first English Edition of Chemical Analysis was published in April 2000 and has been very well received, with sales of almost 3000 copies in the paperback. Completely revised and updated, the Second Edition of this extremely successful book includes all the latest developments in the field and provides the reader with all the information they need on methods of chemical analysis and new instrumental techniques that have been developed and improved in recent years. This Second Edition will publish simultaneously with the latest French Edition published by Dunod, Paris. This is a key title in the field that offers a modern introduction to a wide range of techniques and instruments used in chemical analysis. The book fills a niche between the large US analytical chemistry texts and the more techniques or instrument specific books that are often too specialised for the undergraduate student. The current edition has been extremely successful and adopted on many courses. The time is right to publish a newly revised and updated edition to ensure that all the latest developments in the field are included. The competitors to this title are now becoming dated; therefore it is essential that the Second Edition be published in order to maintain its current success.