04980 IUPAC Gold Book - quantitative analysis 10.1351/goldbook.Q04980 Q04980 current 1 Analyses in which the amount or concentration of an analyte may be determined (estimated) and expressed as a numerical value in appropriate units. qualitative analysis may take place without quantitative analysis, but quantitative analysis requires the identification (qualification) of the analytes for which numerical estimates are given. qualitative analysis https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/Q04973 PAC, 1995, 67, 1699. 'Nomenclature in evaluation of analytical methods including detection and quantification capabilities (IUPAC Recommendations 1995)' on page 1701 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199567101699) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/Q04980/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/Q04980/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/Q04980/plain Citation: 'quantitative analysis' 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.Q04980 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. 2026-06-28T07:05:19+00:00