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Mansoura National University
Pharm D-Clinical Pharmacy Program Level 1 Pharm. Anal. Chem. 1 (PC 101)
▪ The branch of science that deals with chemicals.
What is ▪ Chemicals include all the day-to-day things you touch, see, and
chemistry? smell.
▪ Chemicals are everywhere (except in the vacuum).
▪ Chemicals are composed of different substances (substance
means chemical material of which an object is composed e.g.
ice is composed of substance water, or chemical material
What are water).
chemicals ▪ Despite the benefits of chemistry, we have to be careful in
composed of? dealing with chemicals.
▪ Many chemicals are toxic, others are potential cancer
producers. Therefore, chemicals must be handled with
control.
▪ Solvent: A substance that dissolves other materials to form a
solution.
▪ Solute: A substance that dissolves in a solvent.
▪ Solution: A homogenous mixture of one or more solutes
Solution dissolved in a solvent.
terminology
❖ Concentrated solution: has a relatively large proportion of
solute to solvent.
❖ Diluted solution: has a relatively smaller proportion of solute to
solvent.
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