08003 IUPAC Gold Book - analytical chemistry 10.1351/goldbook.08003 08003 current 1 Scientific discipline that develops and applies strategies, instruments, and procedures to obtain information on the composition and nature of matter in space and time. 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. chemical analysis https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08004 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) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08003/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08003/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08003/plain Citation: 'analytical chemistry' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.08003 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-05-30T10:27:53+00:00