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It is a measurement science consisting of a set powerful ideas and methods that are useful in all fields of science and medicine.

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Analytical Chemistry

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It is always associated with a chemical formula and is Avogadro’s number.

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Mole

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It is an invariant measure of the amount of matter in an object.

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Mass

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It is the force of attraction between an object and its surroundings, principally Earth

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Weight

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It is the total number of moles of solute, regardless of its chemical state, on one liter of solution.

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Analytical Molarity

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It is the molar concentration of a particular species in a solution at equilibrium.

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Equilibrium Molarity

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It is frequently used to express the concentration of commercial aqueous reagents.

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Weight percent

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It is commonly used to specify the concentration of a solution prepared by diluting a pure liquid solute with another liquid.

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Volume percent

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It is often used to indicate the composition of a dilute aqueous solutions of a solid reagents.

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Weight/Volume percent

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It is the mass of a substance per unit volume.

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Density

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It is the ratio of the mass of a substance to the mass of an equal volume of water.

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Specific gravity

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12
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It gives the simplest whole-number ratio of atoms in a chemical compound.

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Empirical formula

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13
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It specifies the number of atoms in a molecule

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Molecular formula

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14
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It provides additional information.

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Structural formula

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15
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It reveals chemical identity of elements and compounds in a sample.

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Qualitative Analysis

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16
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It determines the relative amounts of each substance in a sample

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Quantitative Analysis

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17
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A components of a sample that are to be determined.

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Analytes

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18
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It use and science and technology to solve practical problems.

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Analytical chemistry

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19
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It is applied in all areas of science, industry, and medicine.

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Analytical chemistry

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20
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What is the concentrations of blood samples?

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O2 and CO2

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21
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It determine the mass of analyte or some compound chemically related to it.

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Gravimetric methods

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22
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It use the volume of a solution containing sufficient reagent to react with the analyte.

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Volumetric methods

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23
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It measures electrical properties (potential, current, resistance) to find composition of samples.

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Electroanalytical methods

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24
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It based on interaction of electromagnetic radiation with analyte atoms & molecules, or on the production of radiation by analytes.

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Spectroscopic methods

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25
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It is an instrument for determining mass with a maximum capacity that ranges from 1 g to a few kilograms with a precision of at least 1 part in 105 at maximum capacity

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Analytical balance

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It is the most common analytical balance have a maximum capacity ranging between 160 and 200g. With these balances, measurements can be made with a standard deviation of 60.1 mg.

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Macrobalance

27
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Have a maximum loading of 10 to 30g with a precision of 60.01 mg.

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Semi microanalytical balances

28
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It has a capacity of 1 to 3g and a precision of 60.001 mg.

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Microanalytical balance

29
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It has a cylindrical bulb located midway the mouthpiece and the tip.

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Volumetric or transfer pipette

30
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It is a system ensuring precision and accuracy in the laboratory by using quality control reagents in ever series of measurements

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Quality control

31
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It is a system of techniques to ensure with a specified degree of confidence that the result obtained from each series of analysis is true and correct.

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Quality control

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◦ Patient identification
◦ Specimen information, collection and handling

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Pre-analytical phase

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◦ Personnel
◦ Established laboratory policies
◦ Complete laboratory procedural manual

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Analytical

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◦ Value reporting, turnaround time
◦ Preventative maintenance of equipment and reagents
◦ Patient satisfaction

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Post analytical

35
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It is the ability of a method to detect and measure even the smallest amount of the particular substance tested for it.

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Sensitivity

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It is the ability of a method to measure only the component desired w/out interference of some substances present in the sample.

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Specificity

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It is the ability of a method to determine the exact value of the substance of interest. It is the closeness of the value obtained with the true value.

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Accuracy

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It is the ability of the method to give repeated results on the same sample that agree with one another.

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Precision or Reproducibility

39
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It is the degree by w/c the method is easily repeated

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Practicability

40
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The desired component that you want to determine.

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Analyte

41
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It is the systematic procedure whereas it obtains, process, and communicate information about the composition of a matter or sample.

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Analytical Chemistry

42
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In the typical quantitative analysis before measuring the sample we should make sure that sample is what?

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Soluble

43
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The type of reagent that is made for a specific method or instrument only.

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Special-purpose reagent

44
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The most common instrument that is used in measuring the mass of analytes.

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Analytical balance

45
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What do we call the solid substances that could easily absorb moisture from the atmosphere?

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Hygroscopic solids/substances

46
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Volumetric apparatus are calibrated based on their purpose, with that pipettes are calibrated base on what purpose?

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To deliver

47
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This process is just focused on testing the accuracy and precision of the data before, during, and after the process.

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Quality assessment/assurance

48
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This process is focused on determining the error and report a data with minimized error using statistical analysis.

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Quality control

49
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The commonly used method in gravimetric analysis.

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Precipitation

50
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It is commonly used for preparing Levey-Jennings charts. It is used to graph successive (run-to-run or day-to-day) quality control values.

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Standard deviation

51
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Will group any series of measurement in the same sample in a cluster around the mean in a bell shaped curve.

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Gaussian Curve

52
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Plotted w/ the accumulated differences from the mean of individual values with the middle being zero.

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Cumulative Sum Graph

53
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A 2 mean chart drawn at right angle to one another with the one set of values on one axis another set of values on the other axis.

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Youden Plot

54
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Comparison of individual patient results throughout the day or week with computer detection of changes from earlier individual patient results.

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Delta check

55
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Range of analyte values that a method can directly measure on the specimen without any dilution, concentration, or other pretreatment.

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AMR = Analytical Measurement Range

56
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Range of analyte values that a method can report as a quantitative result, allowing for specimen dilution, concentration, or other pretreatment used to expand the direct AMR.

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CRR = Clinical Reportable Range

57
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It’s a way of expressing standard deviation in terms of average value of the observations used in the calculation.

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Coefficient of Variation (CV)

58
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A statement pf variability and measure the significant differences between groups of dat.

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Variance

59
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It represents a specimen with known value that is similar in composition.

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Control

60
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It represents a substance that is measured to know the accuracy and precision of the machine or instruments.

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Calibrator

61
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Solution of known characteristics and of known value. It is composed of one known constituent only and used as basis or reference for calculation of the value of the unknown.

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Standard solution

62
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A solution composed of several known constituents w/c can be run simultaneously w/ the test to check the accuracy of the result.

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Control solution