Analytical Chemistry Notes Interferences or interferents- species that affect

the signal on which an analysis is based.

Chapter 1:
Qualitative Analysis- Reveals the identity of the
elements and compound in the sample.
Quantitative analysis- Indicates the amount of
each substance in a sample.
Calibration- the empirical determination of the
relationship between a measured quantity and
a known reference or standard value. Used to
establish analytical signal versus concentration
relationships in a calibration or working curve.

Volumetric method- methods of analysis in
which the final measurement is a volume of a
standard titrant needed to react with the
analyte in a known quantity of sample.
Analytes- are the components of a sample that
are determined.
Dry ashing- the elimination of organic matter
from a sample by direct heating in air.
Absorbance- the logarithm of the ratio between
the initial power of a beam of radiation and it’s
power after it has traversed an absorbing
medium.

Electroanalytical method- a large group of

methods that have in common the
measurement of an electrical property of the
system that is proportional to the amount of
analyte in the sample.

Heterogeneous- a material is heterogeneous if

it’s constituent parts can be distinguished
visually or with the aid of a microscope. Coal,
animal tissue, and soil are heterogenous.

Assay- the process of determining how much of

a given sample is the material indicated by it’s
name.

Sampling- the process of collecting a small

portion of a material whose composition is
representative of the bulk of the material from
which it was taken.

Replicate samples- portions of a material, of

approximately the same size, that are carried
through an analysis at the same time and
precisely the same way.