"Qualitative analysis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... constituents and determining what these constituents are. The analysis is qualitative when it results in merely determining what elements compose the compound; it is quantitative when the exact percentage of each constituent is determined. Qualitative analysis must therefore precede quantitative analysis, for it must be known what elements, are in a compound before a method can be devised for determining exactly how much of ...
— An Elementary Study of Chemistry • William McPherson |
