ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the American Chemical Society's (ACS) Reagent Chemicals: Specifications and Procedures for Reagents and Standard-Grade Reference Materials. It focuses on the new plasma spectrochemical-based methodology for carrying out the determination of a suite of heavy metals in reagent chemicals. In June 2016, the 11th edition of the ACS's Reagent Chemicals was officially published, which was the culmination of 7 years' work for 25 dedicated analytical chemists and their affiliated organizations, who volunteer their time and resources by serving on this ACS committee. The specifications in the ACS book are intended to serve for reagent chemicals and standard-grade reference materials to be used in precise analytical work of a general nature. Each specification is accompanied with a detailed description of the tests required to carry out the measurement of each of the analytes listed in the monograph.
