Chemical Technicians' Ready Reference Handbook

Jack T. Ballinger, Ed.D., is professor of chemistry at St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley and the author of Chemical Technician's Ready Reference Handbook, published by McGraw-Hill. Dr. Ballinger has taught chemical technology courses for the past 29 years. He is a member of the American Chemical Society's coordinating committee developing national skill standards for the chemical process industry. Gershon J. Shugar is the author of The Chemist’s Ready Reference Handbook, also published by McGraw-Hill, and professor emeritus of engineering technologies at Essex County College, Newark, New Jersey. In 1947, Dr. Shugar founded a chemical manufacturing business that became the largest exclusive pearlescent pigment manufacturing company in the United States. In 1968, he was appointed assistant professor of chemistry at Rutgers University, where he taught until his appointment at Essex County College.

Chapter 1. Chemical Process Industry Workers and Government Regulations
Chapter 2. Chemical Plant and Laboratory Safety
Chapter 3. Chemical Handling and Hazard Communication
Chapter 4. Handling Compressed Gases
Chapter 5. Pressure and Vacuum
Chapter 6. Mathematics Review and Conversion Tables
Chapter 7. Standard Operating Procedures
Chapter 8. Laboratory Glassware
Chapter 9. pH Measurement
Chapter 10. Basic Electricity
Chapter 11. Sampling
Chapter 12. Laboratory Filtration
Chapter 13. Recrystallization
Chapter 14. The Balance
Chapter 15. Gravimetric Analysis
Chapter 16. Preparation of Solutions
Chapter 17. Process Analyzers
Chapter 18. Plumbing, Valves, and Pumps
Chapter 19. Physical Properties and Determinations
Chapter 20. Extraction
Chapter 21. Distillation and Evaporation
Chapter 22. Inorganic Chemistry Review
Chapter 23. Organic Chemistry Review
Chapter 24. Chemical Calculation and Concentration Expressions
Chapter 25. Volumetric Analysis
Chapter 26. Chromatography
Chapter 27. Spectroscopy
Chapter 28. Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
Appendix A. Commonly Used Abbreviations
Appendix B. Physical Properties of Water
Appendix C. Glossary of Chemical Process Terms
Index