qualitative analysis

Questions about qualitative analysis

What does qualitative analysis mean?

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

What is another word for qualitative analysis?

Close synonyms include chemical 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 qualitative analysis a common word?

qualitative 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.