Analysis & Elements
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[edit]Analysis
Analysis (general meaning): To break something up into its component parts. It shares the root -lysis with a number of other words, including hydrolysis. It is the opposite of synthesis.
Analysis (chemical meaning): Again, it means to break something (in this case a compound) up into its component parts. There are two kinds of chemical analysis: proximate and ultimate. Ultimate analysis is breaking something up into its component elements, breaking it up as far as you can go. Proximate analysis is when a chemical is broken up into parts, but not necessarily all the way back to elements. An example would be breaking silver carbonate into silver oxide and carbon dioxide.
[edit]Elements
-Azote: Named azote because it does not allow things to live. If you put a mouse in a jar filled with azote (nitrogen) it will die.
-Hydrogen: Named hydrogen because it gives rise ("gen") to water ("hydro").
-Oxygen: Named because it gives rise ("gen" again) to sharp things ("oxy") when combined with a base or radial. The sharp things are acids, some examples of which are phorphoric acid, sulfuric acid, and carbonic acid. Lavoisier was wrong about muriatic acid (HCl, so named because it comes from the sea), as hydrochloric acid has no oxygen in it.
