Preface -- This book is intended primarily to serve as a textbook at the advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate level for courses stressing the fundamental principles of analytical chemistry. In addition, it is hoped that it will serve as a reference work and guide to the literature for instructors in quantitative analysis and for practicing analytical chemists.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- With the spectacular advances in instrumentation and automation of analytical operations that have taken place in the last generation, a question may well be raised about whether it is necessary to study in detail the basic principles of some of our oldest classical methods of gravimetry and titrimetry.