Mass Spectrometry

Analytical Chemistry

Analytical chemistry studies and uses instruments and methods used to separate, identify, and quantify matter. In practice separation, identification or quantification may constitute the entire analysis or be combined with another method. Modern Analytical Chemistry is dominated by instrumental analysis. Many analytical chemists focus on a single type of instrument. Academics tend to either focus on new applications and discoveries or on new methods of analysis. Spectroscopy based on the differential interaction of the analyte along with electromagnetic radiation. Chromatography, in which the analyte is separated from the rest of the sample so that it may be measured without interference from other compounds.