QUANTITATIVE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS

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Meaning:

Chemical analysis to determine the amounts of each element in the substance

Synonyms:

quantitative analysis; quantitative chemical analysis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("quantitative chemical analysis" is a kind of...):

chemical analysis; qualitative analysis (the act of decomposing a substance into its constituent elements)

measure; measurement; measuring; mensuration (the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quantitative chemical analysis"):

colorimetric analysis; colorimetry (quantitative chemical analysis by color using a colorimeter)

volumetric analysis (quantitative analysis by the use of definite volumes of standard solutions or reagents)

volumetric analysis (determination of the volume of gases (or changes in their volume) during combination)

gravimetric analysis (quantitative analysis by weight)