[News & Trends]:What is the difference between chemical purity and analytical purity?

Chemical purity and analytical purity are two commonly used purity standards in laboratories, which play an important role in chemical reagents and laboratory experiments. However, many people are not clear about these two concepts and often confuse them. This article will provide a detailed introduction to the differences between chemical purity and analytical purity, helping everyone better understand these two purity standards


Chemical purity and analytical purity are purity standards for chemical reagents. Chemical purity refers to the purity requirement used as a standard and analytical reagent in chemical experiments, usually requiring a purity of 99.9% or higher. Analytical purity refers to the purity requirement used in analytical chemistry experiments, usually requiring a purity of 99.99% or higher. From the perspective of purity requirements, analytical purity is required to be higher. Therefore, in some experiments that require extremely high purity, analytical pure reagents need to be used


From the perspective of application fields, chemical purity is more commonly used in general chemical experiments and general applications, while analytical purity is more commonly used in high-precision analytical experiments and experiments with extremely high purity requirements. For example, when conducting general basic chemical experiments in a conventional laboratory, pure chemical reagents are usually chosen; In some high-end analytical laboratories, experiments with extremely high purity requirements will choose to use analytical pure reagents


For ordinary laboratories, chemical purity and analytical purity are often interchangeable. Because in general experiments, purity requirements are not particularly high, the use of chemically pure reagents is sufficient to meet the experimental requirements. Analytical pure reagents are usually more expensive, and without particularly high purity requirements, chemical pure reagents can already complete most experiments


Overall, there are differences in purity requirements and application areas between chemical purity and analytical purity. When choosing to use, it is necessary to determine which purity of reagent to use based on the specific requirements of the experiment. I hope this article is helpful for everyone to better understand chemical purity and analytical purity.