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Introduction

The knowledge of chemical analysis today has become important not only for scientists in their research but in fact bears influence in our daily routine as well. To recognize and classify these uses, we have to first understand, what is chemical analysis?

Chemical Analysis

Chemical Analysis is a body of procedures and techniques used to identify and quantify the chemical composition of a sample of substance.1 It may be said as a collection of all the techniques required to obtain any chemical information about a particular substance. There are two branches in analytical chemistry: Qualitative analysis and Quantitative analysis. Qualitative chemical analysis is used to identify a particular element/compound in a sample of substance. Quantitative chemical analysis consists of determining the quality or concentration of a specific sample of substance. Thus for example, determining whether a sample of salt contains the element chlorine is a qualitative analysis;......

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