Handbook of Green Analytical Chemistry, Hardcover by De La Guardia, Miguel (EDT); Garrigues, Salvador (EDT), ISBN 0470972017, ISBN-13 9780470972014, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UKEditors de la Guardia and Garrigues (both: U. of Valencia, Spain) emphasize in their introduction that clearly the time has come to put principles into practice and make environmentally friendly processes prevail at every step in every environment where chemical analysis is performed. They wrote the first two chapters--on concepts and on education. Following are contributions on the analytical process (. sampling techniques, direct analysis of samples, sample preparation, capillary electrophoresis, chromatography, atomic spectrometry); strategies (energy savings, miniaturization, micro-and nanomaterials based detection systems applied in lab-on-a-chip technology); and fields of application (bioanalytical chemistry, infrared spectroscopy in biodiagnostics, environmental and industrial analysis). Contributions are from chemists based in Spain, Italy, Brazil, and a half dozen other countries. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()