Industrial Chemistry and Water Treatment

Analytical Chemistry

A branch of chemistry that deals with the identification of compounds and mixtures (qualitative analysis) or the determination of the proportions of the constituents (quantitative analysis): techniques commonly used are titration, precipitation, spectroscopy, chromatography, etc. The importance of it is due to its ability to check the quality of foods, drugs and other chemicals which we use in daily life. Most chemists routinely make qualitative and quantitative measurements. For this reason, some scientists suggest that analytical chemistry isn’t a separate branch of chemistry, but simply the request of chemical knowledge. In fact, you may be having performed quantitative and qualitative analyses in other chemistry courses.  Analytical chemistry as the requisition of chemical knowledge ignores the unique perspective that analytical chemists bring back the study of chemistry.