RECENT BOOKS

A relatively recent book to be published in the spot test tradition is the second edition of Ervin Jungreis' Spot Test Analysis [Jungreis, Ervin (1984 and 1997)].  It continues the tradition of providing quick, inexpensive, definitive tests for clinical, environmental, forensic, and geochemical applications.

More recently, Andrew Holmes’ (2002) Rapid Spot Testing of Metals, Alloys and Coatings (Figure 57) was reviewed in www.ModernMicroscopy.com.

click image to enlarge (173K) Figure 57. Front cover of Holmes’ Rapid Spot Testing of Metals, Alloys and Coatings (2002).

A highly specialized application of microchemistry is for the identification of lichens (Figure 58 and Figure 59), [Orange, et al (2001)].

click image to enlarge (180K) Figure 58. Front cover of Orange, James, and White’s Microchemical Methods for the Identification of Lichens (2001).

click image to enlarge (165K) Figure 59. Illustrations of microchemical tests in Orange, James, and White’s Microchemical Methods for the Identification of Lichens (2001).

Another specialized application is that for the identification of historical painter’s materials, as we have in Schramm and Hering’s (1988) Historische Malmaterialien (Figure 60 and Figure 61). 

click image to enlarge (122K) Figure 60. Cover of Schramm and Hering’s Historische Malmaterialien und ihre Identifizierung (1988).

click image to enlarge (165K) Figure 61. Microchemical test illustrations from Schramm and Hering’s Historische Malmaterialien und ihre Identifizierung (1988).

Volume X of Wilson and Wilson’s (1980) Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry is devoted to organic spot test analysis  (Figure 62).

click image to enlarge (82K) Figure 62. Title page of Volume X, Organic Spot Test Analysis, in Wilson and Wilson’s Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry.