Traditionally, inorganic chemical analysis has been used to investigate the presence and concentration of elements and trace elements in a sample. However, total elemental determination does not provide the physicochemical characteristics, biological activity, toxicity, mobility, and bioavailability of elements in the sample because such information can only be derived through the analysis of chemical species. Speciation analysis identifies and measures the quantities of one or more individual chemical species in a sample, thereby enabling scientists to determine the chemical form in which the elements occur as well as their distribution.