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A Primer for Sampling Solids, Liquids, and Gases

A Primer for Sampling Solids, Liquids, and Gases

A Primer for Sampling Solids, Liquids, and Gases

Based on the Seven Sampling Errors of Pierre Gy
Patricia L. Smith
January 1987
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    How does a marble manufacturer know that the color will be consistent throughout the products being made? How can you tell if liquid at the bottom of a container is the same consistency as at the top? How does a pellet manufacturer know if the pellets are consistently the same size? How does a chemical manufacturer know if the percent purity in a sample is representative of the whole batch? These and similar questions are answered in A Primer for Sampling Solids, Liquids, and Gases: Based on the Seven Sampling Errors of Pierre Gy. Author Patricia L. Smith illustrates what to look for in sampling devices and procedures to obtain correct samples from bulk materials. She gives sampling guidelines that can be applied immediately and shows how to analyze protocols to uncover sampling problems.

    • Presents Pierre Gy's approach to sampling bulk material---whether solid, liquid, or gas.
    • Gives basic principles that can be applied to any bulk sampling situation.
    • Uses everyday language and intuitive explanations.

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    January 1987
    Hardback
    9780898714739
    116 pages
    265 × 155 × 15 mm
    0.415kg
    This item is not supplied by Cambridge University Press in your region. Please contact Soc for Industrial & Applied Mathematics for availability.

    Table of Contents

    • Preface
    • Foreword by Francis F. Pitard
    • List of terms and symbols
    • 1. Some views of sampling
    • 2. The material: sampling and material variation
    • 3. The tools and techniques: sampling, sample collection, and sample handling
    • 4. The process: sampling and process variation
    • 5. A strategy: putting theory into practice
    • Appendix A. Introduction to Gy's seven sampling errors
    • Appendix B. The variance of the fundamental error
    • Appendix C. Obtaining a sequential random sample
    • Appendix D. Calculation of the Variogram
    • Appendix E. Experiments
    • Appendix F. Sampling safely
    • References
    • Index.
      Author
    • Patricia L. Smith