Scientific discipline that develops and applies strategies, instruments, and procedures to obtain information on the composition and nature of matter in space and time.
Notes: - The definition was coined by the Working Party on Analytical Chemistry (WPAC) of the Federation of European Chemical Societies (FECS) and is known as the "Edinburgh Definition".
- The term "analytical science" was coined in 1998 to emphasize the impact of informatics on analytical chemistry.
See also: chemical analysis
Source:
PAC, 2021, 93, 997. 'Metrological and quality concepts in analytical chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 2021)' on page 999 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0819)