A Rigorous approach, Written to teach
A focus on graphing and data analysis. Comprehension is increased when students have the opportunity for active learning and improving their problem-solving skills. The tenth edition has an increased emphasis on graphing and data analysis using scatter plots, calibration curves, and residual plots, and many new problems to reinforce these skills.

Applications to everyday life. Engaging with the material also enhances student comprehension and -- in the authors’ own words -- helps to “lighten the load of a very dense subject”.

• Chapter Openers with examples of analytical methods in everyday life are peppered throughout the text.
• Boxed applications show relevance of subject matter to the real world and to other science disciplines notably biology and medicine.

Chemical Demonstrations featured in Color Plates.  The Color Plates located as an insert in  the center of the book illustrate

• Grating dispersion
• Absorption spectra
• Atomic absorption flame stoichiometry
• An inductively coupled plasma torch
• Dithizone extraction
• Normal and reversed phase thin layer chromatography
• Cloud point extraction

Study and Reference Tools to help students learn the material and study for exams:

• Terms to Understand  Essential vocabulary, highlighted in bold in the text, is collected at the end of the chapter. 
• Glossary  Key terms are defined in the glossary.
• Appendixes  Tables of solubility products, acid dissociation constants, redox potentials, and formation constants appear at the back of the book.  You will also find discussions of logarithms and exponents, an advanced treatment of propagation of uncertainty, nonlinear curve fitting, smoothing of data, balancing redox equations, normality, analytical standards, and a little bit about DNA.
• Notes and References  Citations in the chapters appear at the end of the book.
• Inside Cover  Tables of physical constants and properties of concentrated acids and bases are found on the page after the front inside cover.

Problem Solving Practice
Problem solving support is offered through Worked Examples, Test Yourself questions, and end-of-chapter Exercises and Problems.

• Exercises are the minimum set of problems that apply most major concepts of each chapter.
• Spreadsheets.  Spreadsheets are tools that are indispensable for science and engineering. A few of the powerful features of Microsoft Excel are described as they are needed, including graphing in Chapters 2 and 4, statistical functions and regression in Chapter 4 and Appendix C, solving equations with Goal Seek and Solver, circular definitions in Chapters 7, 8, 13, and 19, and some matrix operations in Chapter 19.  The text teaches you how to construct spreadsheets to simulate titrations and chromatographic separations, and to solve chemical equilibrium problems
• Problems at the end of the chapter cover the entire content of the book.  Short answers to Problems are at the back of the book and complete solutions appear in the Solutions Manual.

Supported by SaplingPlus
SaplingPlus incorporates a powerful e-book along with all of the plentiful online resources, giving students a single place to read, study, and assess their knowledge. High-quality teaching and learning tools help students prepare for class, practice problem solving and study for their exams to help students make the most of their study time.

• Interactive Vitalsource ebook. Mobile accessible with native apps on Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, Chrome, and Kindle. Allows students to read offline, have the book read aloud to them, highlight, take notes, and search for keywords.  Instructors can also highlight and push notes for students to see.
• LearningCurve: Putting “testing to learn” into action, LearningCurve is the perfect tool to get students to engage before class, and review after. With game-like quizzing, it creates individualized activities for each student, selecting questions—by difficulty and topic—according to their performance.
• Sapling practice/homework problems featuring over a thousand problems from Quantitative Analysis include acclaimed hints, targeted feedback and detailed solutions.
• Video Procedures: Animations that demonstrate what is happening at the atomic or molecular level in several different instrumental techniques. There are also several videos that demonstrate what the instrumentation and parts look like in an actual lab setting.
• In-Class Worksheets provide problems and solutions appropriate for group work in class include a set of questions covering the major topics in a chapter.  For use in the classroom to help facilitate active learning or used as additional practice for students after class. 
• Lab Experiments
• Laboratory experiments
• Laboratory Citations
• Spreadsheet and Excel practices, including graphing, statistical functions, and matrix operations, are covered in the text and with ancillary materials online.

Classic Coverage with Important Updates
Accurate, comprehensive, and current information.

• Revised chromatography and electrophoresis chapters written by new co-author Charles Lucy.
• Up-to-date foundational SI units. Analytical chemistry is a branch of the science of metrology, whose foundational SI units were overhauled in 2019. Table 1-1 introduces the new units.  Regulatory agencies are introduced in Table 5-2, and examples of standard methods for water analysis are provided in Table 19-1.
• New Color Plates to this 10th edition include; 14, 16, 25, 26, 29, 31, and 36.
• New examples and applications A field-effect transistor “electronic nose,” a carbon fiber/carbon nanotube/platinum nanocrystalline electrode to measure O2 in brain cells; the electrochemical critical care analyzer used in hospitals; green fluorescent protein used in biological research; a nanopore device for sequencing nucleotide bases in DNA; and isotopically labeled mass tags to quantify proteins in biological research.  For mass spectrometry, Figure 22-47 introduces matrix-assisted ionization and Figures 22-52 and 22-53 show state-of-the-art implementations of traveling wave ion mobility separation coupled to mass spectrometry.
• Updates to Spectrometry Chapters. Particular attention was paid to including state- of -the- art methods and techniques critical to this field. New material includes matrix-assisted ionization (Chapter 22), traveling wave ion mobility separation coupled to mass spectrometry (Chapter 22), how to select an appropriate atomic spectrometry technique for different problems (Chapter 21), and classification of solvents based on their environmental impact (Chapter 23).
• New Methods of Biochemical Analysis. Applications to biology and medicine continue to be a highlight of the text. Examples include: derivatization (Table 19-2), fluorescent proteins (Chapter 19 opener and Figure 19-19), cell density by optical scattering (Problem 19-17), immunodepletion (Section 26-4) and microwell plates (Figure 19-11).
• New Problems to Reinforce Graphing Skills. Along with updates to content, there are many new problems, particularly those that reinforce graphing and inspection of data. For example, problems 5-17, 5-29 (Gothan crime lab), 5-31, 18-21 (DNA concentration), 18-27, 20-14, 20-28, 20-37 (reading a log-log plot), 21-23, 21-24, 23-57).