analytical chemistry
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Analytical chemistry is the scientific field focused on breaking down materials into their individual chemical components and figuring out what they are and how much of each is present. It matters because understanding what substances contain and in what amounts is essential for everything from ensuring food safety and developing medicines to monitoring pollution and quality control in manufacturing.
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Analytical chemistry (or chemical analysis) is the branch of chemistry concerned with the development and application of methods to identify the chemical composition of materials and quantify the amounts of components in mixtures. It focuses on methods to identify unknown compounds, possibly in a mixture or solution, and quantify a compound's presence in terms of amount of substance (in any phase), concentration (in aqueous or solution phase), percentage by mass or number of moles in a mixture of compounds (or partial pressure in the case of gas phase).