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TOPIC: CHEMICALS

Grades of Chemicals
Grade Characteristics and Use
Analytic reagent grade  Very high purity
 Meet specification of ACS
 Recommended for qualitative and quantitative analysis
1. Lot-analyzed reagents: each individual lot is analyzed and the actual
amount of impurity reported
2. Maximum impurities reagents: maximum impurities are listed

Ultra-pure  Spectrograde, nanograde or HPLC grade


 Used for gas chromatography, HPLC, fluorometry and trace metal
determinations

Chemically pure  limits of impurities not specified.


 May be acceptable for some lab applications when higher chemicals
aren’t available

Practical, technical, or  for industrial use


commercial grade  not of sufficient purity to use as analytic reagents

USP or NF grade  meet specification of US Pharmacopeia or National Formulary


 not injurious to health
 not necessarily of sufficient purity to use as analytic reagents

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