Analgesics.
Compounds which reduce pain perception, e.g. morphine
Analysis.
The determination of the components in a chemical sample. Qualitative analysis involves determining the nature of a pure unknown compound or the compound present in a mixture. Various chemical tests exist for different elements or types of compound, and systematic analytical procedures can be used for mixtures. Quantitative analysis involves measuring the proportions of known components in a mixture. Chemical techniques for this fall into two main classes; volumetric analysis and gravimetric analysis. In addition, there are numerous physical methods of qualitative and quantitative analysis, including spectroscopic techniques, mass spectrometry, polarography, chromatography, activation analysis etc.


