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Qualitative chemical analysis
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Lambert, Jack L. Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas.
Last reviewed:June 2020
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1036/1097-8542.561900
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The branch of chemistry concerned with identifying the elements and compounds present in a sample of matter. Inorganic qualitative analysis, for example, traditionally used classical “wet” methods to detect elements or groups of chemically similar elements, but instrumental methods have largely replaced these test-tube methods (see illustration). Once it is known which elements and compounds are present, the role of quantitative analysis is to determine the composition of the sample. See also: Analytical chemistry; Quantitative chemical analysis
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