Updated ed. of: Chemical technicians' ready reference handbook / Gershon J. Shugar [and others]. 2nd ed. 1981. Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Chemical Technician -- Laboratory Safety -- Handling Chemicals and Solutions -- Compressed Gases in the Laboratory -- Pressure and Vacuum -- Basic Laboratory Mathematics -- Laboratory Statistics -- Computers in the Analytical Laboratory -- Measuring Temperature -- Heating and Cooling -- Mechanical Agitation -- Laboratory Filtration -- Recrystallization -- The Balance -- Gravimetric Analysis -- Laboratory Glassware -- Plastic Labware -- Laboratory Hardware -- Determination of Physical Properties -- Extraction Distillation and Evaporation -- Fundamentals of Chemistry -- Organic Chemistry Nomenclature -- Chemicals and Preparation of Solutions -- Volumetric Analysis -- pH Measurement -- Basic Electricity -- Electrochemistry -- The Electromagnetic Spectrum -- Visible and Ultraviolet Spectroscopy -- Infrared Spectroscopy -- Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy -- Optical Emission Spectroscopy -- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy -- Radioactivity -- Chromatography -- Gas Chromatography -- Liquid Chromatography -- Appendix A: Laboratory First Aid -- Appendix B: Table of Four-Place Logarithms -- Appendix C: Abbreviations, Symbols, and Unit Conversions -- Appendix D: Glossary of Chemical Technology Terms -- Appendix D: Physical Properties of Water Index.