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- The separation of a substance into its constituent elements, usually by chemical means, for the study and identification of each component.
♦ qualitative analysis determines what substances are present in a compound.
♦ quantitative analysis determines how much of each substance is present in a compound. - A branch of mathematics concerned with limits and convergence and principally involving differential calculus, integral calculus, sequences, and series.
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