Asian Journal of Research in Chemistry

In recent dates too many chemical are available in market which have Pharmaceutical uses as well as side effect. from that salicylic acid is also one of the chemical which use in number of treatments of diseases. But due to improper knowledge regarding their uses and side effect people avoid the use of SA. Identification of chemicals is very important factor because as we already know that thousands of chemicals are available in market for correct identification become very difficult. So for identification we refer various characteristic properties like colour, odour, solubility, pH etc.