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Elemental analysis is a process where a sample of some material (e.g., soil, waste or drinking water, bodily fluids, minerals, chemical compounds) is analyzed for its elemental and sometimes isotopic composition. Elemental analysis can be qualitative (determining what elements are present), and it can be quantitative (determining how much of each are present). Elemental analysis falls within the gambit of analytical chemistry, the set of instruments involved in deciphering the chemical nature of our world.[1]

References

  1. Iyengar, G. Venkatesh (1989). "Chapter 1: Biological Trace Element Research". Elemental Analysis of Biological Systems: Biological, Medical, Environmental, Compositional, and Methodological Aspects. 1. CRC Press. pp. 1–8. ISBN 9780849354236. http://books.google.com/books?id=b-MHh-drR3wC&pg=PA1. Retrieved 04 August 2014.