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An Introduction to Chemical Kinetics

An Introduction to Chemical Kinetics. Margaret Robson Wright # 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. ISBNs: 0-470-09058-8 (hbk) 0-470-09059-6 (pbk)

An Introduction to Chemical Kinetics

Margaret Robson Wright
Formerly of The University of St Andrews, UK

Copyright # 2004

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Dedicated with much love and affection to my mother, Anne (in memoriam), with deep gratitude for all herloving help, to her oldest and dearest friends, Nessie (in memoriam) and Dodo Gilchrist of Cumnock, who, by their love and faith in me, have always been a source of great encouragement to me, and last, but not least, to my own immediate family, my husband, Patrick, our children Anne, Edward and Andrew and our cats.

Contents
Preface List of Symbols xiii xvii

1 Introduction 2 ExperimentalProcedures
2.1 Detection, Identification and Estimation of Concentration of Species Present 2.1.1 Chromatographic techniques: liquid–liquid and gas–liquid chromatography 2.1.2 Mass spectrometry (MS) 2.1.3 Spectroscopic techniques 2.1.4 Lasers 2.1.5 Fluorescence 2.1.6 Spin resonance methods: nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) 2.1.7 Spin resonance methods: electron spin resonance (ESR) 2.1.8 Photoelectron...