chemical analysis

Questions about chemical analysis

What does chemical analysis mean?

chemical analysis means "the act of decomposing a substance into its constituent elements".

What is another word for chemical analysis?

Close synonyms include qualitative analysis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chemical analysis a common word?

chemical analysis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.