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Chapter-end summaries and programme is a joint investigative programme by chemistry, electrochemical detection, and micro- exercises support self- and group study, with solu- the German Federal Government and the federal fl uidics. tions included at the end of the book. 500 selected states which is complementary to offi cial food references complement the text for further reading. control as carried out by the states. Th is report Features Chapter-length treatment of green chemistry, plus provides the results of the analysis in 2005 of more 7 Application of combinatorial chemistry to many recent international research results, round than 5000 samples of 50 foods or food groups of sensor materials 7 No competition whatsoever out this highly accessible textbook. 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Food Physics deals with the physical properties compounds due to changes in the chemical and of food, food ingredients and their measurement. physical surrounding conditions. Bioactive Heterocycles II Physical properties of food play a key role in all By approaching the subject of chromotropism fi elds where modern technological processes are from the standpoint of inorganic and coordination applied for the generation of food raw materials chemistry to appeal to a wide readership, complete and the production of food. 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Hendrich: Th e Role of the Membrane Actions Fluids, Th ermodynamics Inorganic Chemistry; Analytical Chemistry; of Phenothiazines and Flavonoids as Functional Physical Chemistry Modulators. Target groups Students in food