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C-HMQC-NOESY
13
C-NOESY-HSQC
15
N-NOESY-HSQC
15
N-TOCSY-HSQC
180° pulse
90° pulse
ablation by sputtering
ablation efficiency
ablation rate
ablation threshold fluence
absolute activation analysis
absolute counting efficiency
absolute counting
absolute full energy peak efficiency
absolute photopeak efficiency
absolute preconcentration
absorbance matching
absorbed dose
absorbed electron coefficient
absorbed electrons
absorber
absorption
absorption index
absorption pathlength
acceleration energy
accelerator
accelerator mass spectrometry
acceptance interval
acceptance limit
accidental degeneracy
accreditation of a laboratory
accuracy
acid transient effects
acid–base indicator
acid–base titration
acidimetric titration
acidity constant
acquisition time
activation analysis (nuclear)
activation cross-section
activation
activator
active medium
active solid
active species
activity growth curve
activity
additional gases
additive
additive matrix effect
additivity
adiabatic pulse
adsorbate
adsorbent
adsorption
adsorption chromatography
adsorption current
adsorption indicator
adsorption isotherm
aerosol transport phenomena
affinity chromatography
after mass analysis
ageing of precipitate
aliquot
alternating current
alternating voltage
amorphous material transmitting infrared radiation
amphiprotic (solvent)
amplification reaction
amplitude modulation
amplitude of alternating current
amplitude of alternating voltage
analogue to digital converter (pulse)
analyte
analyte transport rate
analytical chemistry
analytical instrument
analytical intercomparison
analytical portion
analytical pyrolysis
analytical quality control
analytical radiochemistry
analytical run
analytical sample
analytical selectivity
analytical solution
Anger camera
angle of incidence
anion exchange
anion exchanger
anisotropic
anisotropic Raman scattering
annihilation
anomalous dispersion
anomalously polarized Raman band
anti-Compton γ-ray spectrometer
anti-Stokes Raman scattering
anti-Stokes type radiation (fluorescence)
anticircular elution
antiparticle
apex current
apex potential
apodization
apodization function
appearance temperature
applied potential
area
arithmetic mean
array detector
artificial radioactivity
ascending elution
ashing
assay
assay kit
assessor
assigned value
asymmetric top
asymmetry potential
atomic absorption spectroscopy
atomic emission spectroscopy
atomic excitation source
atomic fluorescence
atomic fluorescence spectroscopy
atomic laser
atomic polar tensor
atomic spectral lines
atomic spectroscopy
atomic vapour
atomization curve
atomization
atomization surface temperature
atomizer
attenuated total reflection
attenuated total reflection spectroscopy
attenuation
audit
Auger effect
Auger electron
Auger electron spectroscopy
Auger electron yield
Auger yield
auto-ionization
autocatalytic reaction
automation
autoradiograph
autoradiolysis
auxiliary electrode
avalanche photodiode
average life
average rate of flow
axial viewing mode
α-decay
back extraction
back scatter coefficient
back scattered electrons
back washing
background continuum emission
background equivalent concentration
background indication
background mass spectrum
background
background radiation
backscatter
backscattering analysis
backscattering spectroscopy
band shape
band spectra
base electrolyte
base peak
baseline error
baseline
batch
batch injection calorimetry
batch operation
beam current
beam diameter
beam splitter
becquerel
bed volume
before mass analysis
bias
bias error
biased linear pulse amplifier
binder
bioanalytical chemistry
biological half life
blank correction
blank indication
blank material
blank value
blaze-angle
Bloch equations
Bloch–Siegert shift
bolometer
Boltzmann distribution of nuclear spins
bomb-digestion
bonded phase
bound fraction
Bragg filter
branching decay
branching fraction
branching ratio
branching ratio
breakdown threshold fluence
Bremsstrahlung
bridge solution
buffer-addition technique
bulk concentration
bulk sample
Bunsen burner
burn-up
burn-up fraction
burning tension
bypass injector
β-cleavage
β-decay
β-particle
calibration certificate
calibration function
calibration
calibration interval
calibration material
calibration sample
calibration, k0 method
calibrator
calorimetric titration
calorimetry
candidate certified reference material
candidate reference material
capability
capacitive microwave plasma
capillary column
capture
capture cross-section
capture γ-radiation
carbon loading
carrier
carrier gas
carrier
carrier-free
carry-over
catalymetric titration
catalyst
catalytic current
catalytic current, limiting
catalytic thermometric titration
cation exchange
cation exchanger
Cauchy function
cause-and-effect diagram
CBCA(CO)NH/HN(CO)CACB
CBCANH/HNCACB
CC(CO)NH
cell error
centre burst
centrifugal flow
Cerenkov detector
Cerenkov effect
Cerenkov radiation
certification
certified property value
chain fission yield
chain reaction
chamber saturation
channel
channel photomultiplier tube
channeling effect
channels ratio method
characteristic
characteristic line
characteristic mass for integrated absorbance
characteristic mass for peak absorption
characteristic mass
characteristic potential
characteristic X-radiation
characteristic X-ray emission
charge coupled device
charge-transfer device
charring
chelatometric titration
chemi-ionization
chemical actinometer
chemical analysis
chemical dosimeter
chemical ionization
chemical isotope exchange
chemical measurement process
chemical purity
chemical shift anisotropy
chemical shift
chemical vapour generation
chemical yield
chemiluminescence
chiral mobile phase
chiral selector
chiral stationary phase
Christiansen effect
Christiansen filter
chromatogram
chromatograph (noun)
chromatograph (verb)
chromatographic detector
chromatography
circular birefringence
circular development
circular elution
clean surface
clean up
closed system
co-ions
coagulation
coextraction
coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy
coherent source
coincidence circuit
coincidence resolving time
cold neutrons
collection
collection gas flow system
collector
collimation
collimator
collisional broadening
colour indicator
column chromatography
column
column volume
combination electrode
combination transition
combined rotation and multiple pulse spectroscopy
combined sample
commutability of a reference material
comparator
competence
competitive binding assay
complexometric titration
composite reaction
composite sample
Compton effect
Compton electron
Compton scattering
Compton scattering analysis
concave isotherm
concentration distribution ratio
concentration factor
concentration in experimental surface (or surface concentration)
concentration thermometric technique
concentration-sensitive detector
conditioning
confidence level
confidence limits (about the mean)
confined atomizer
conformance probability
conformity assessment
coning and quartering
conjugation labelling
consensus property value
consignment
constant time evolution
continuity inversion
continuous bed packing
continuous flow
continuous flow enthalpimetry
continuous operation
continuous scan interferometer
continuous-flow cell
continuum source
control chart
control limit
control material
control sample
convenience sample
conventional quantity value
conversion electron
convex isotherm
coordinator of an interlaboratory comparison
coprecipitation
Coriolis coupling
Coriolis force
corrected emission spectrum
corrected excitation spectrum
corrected retention volume
correlation spectroscopy
correlation spectroscopy through long-range coupling
correlation time
cosolvent
count
counter tube
counter-ions
counting efficiency
counting loss
counting rate
coupled (indicator) reaction
coupled simultaneous techniques
critical angle
critical excitation energy
critical point
critical pressure
critical temperature
critical value
cross polarization
cross polarization with magic angle spinning NMR
cross reaction
cross reactivity
cross section
crowding
crud
crystal diffraction spectrometer
crystal laser
crystalline electrodes
cumulative fission yield
cumulative sum control chart
curie
current migration
cyclotron
dark output
dark resistance
Darlington phototransistor
daughter product
dead time correction
dead time
dead-volume
decay chain
decay curve
decay rate
decay scheme
decision rule in conformity assessment
decontamination factor
decoupling in the presence of scalar interactions
definitive method
deflection (for a precision balance)
deformation vibration
degrees of freedom
delayed coincidence
delayed fluorescence
delayed neutrons
delayed-neutron activation analysis
density inversion
dephasing
depolarization ratio
depolarized Raman band
depolarizer
depth profile
depth resolution
depth-profiling
derivative potentiometric titration
derivative spectroscopy
descending elution/development
desolvation
detection efficiency
detection limit
detection limit
detector gate width
determination
deviation
devolatilizer
diagram level
diagram line
difference absorption spectroscopy
difference spectroscopy
difference transition
differential detector
differential scanning calorimetry
differential thermal analysis
diffuse reflectance
diffuse reflection
diffuse transmission
diffused junction semiconductor detector
diffusion current
diffusion current constant
diffusion ordered spectroscopy
diluent
diluter
diode laser
dipolar coupling
dipole coupling
direct (radiochemical) isotope dilution analysis
direct amplification
direct current
direct current glow discharge optical emission spectroscopy
direct fission yield
direct thermometric method
direct transfer gas flow system
direct-injection burner (for analytical flame spectroscopy)
direct-injection enthalpimetry
directly-ionizing radiation
discontinuous simultaneous techniques
discriminator
disintegration rate
dispenser
dispersion (for spectroscopic instruments)
dispersion of a sample
dispersive Fourier-transform spectroscopy
dispersive spectrometer
displacement chromatography
dissolution
distortionless enhancement by polarization transfer
distribuend
distribution
distribution coefficient
distribution constant
distribution constant
distribution isotherm
distribution ratio
divided spinning cell
DM-interference
Doppler broadening
dose
double escape peak
double pulsed-field gradient spin-echo excitation
double resonance
double-beam spectrometer
double-beam spectrometer (for luminescence spectroscopy)
double-focusing mass spectrometer
double-labelled protein
double-layer current
double-pulse laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy
double-quantum filtered correlation spectroscopy
double-wavelength spectroscopy
down-time
drift
drop time
dual viewing mode
dwell time
dynamic field(s) mass spectrometer
dynamic spectrum
dynamic thermomechanometry
E
sum
echo time
effective cadmium cut-off energy
effective half life
effective theoretical plate number
effective thermal cross-section
effectively infinite thickness
efficiency
efficiency of atomization
efficiency of nebulization
effluent
elastic scattering
elastic scattering
electric discharge
electrical anharmonicity
electrical arc
electrical harmonicity
electro-optic parameter
electro-osmotic hold-up time
electro-osmotic mobility
electroactive substance
electrochemical cell
electrochemical constants
electrode
electrode memory
electrolyte
electrolytic cell
electromagnetic radiation
electromagnetic transition
electron capture
electron emission spectrometry
electron energy loss spectroscopy
electron microscopy
electron number density
electron number of an electrochemical reaction
electron probe microanalysis
electron probe X-ray microanalysis
electron stopping power
electronic reference to access in vivo concentrations
electronic transition
electrophoretic velocity
electrothermal atomic absorption spectroscopy
electrothermal atomizer
electrothermal vaporization
elementary particle
elementary reaction
ellipticity
eluate
eluent
elute
elution
elution band
elution chromatography
elution curve
end-point
energy dispersion
energy dispersive detector
energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence analysis
energy flux density
energy level
energy
energy resolution
energy threshold
energy yield of luminescence
enhanced phosphorescence analysis
enhancement reaction
enrichment factor
enrichment, isotopic
enthalpimetric analysis
enthalpimetric flow injection analysis
enthalpimetric titration
enthalpimetry
enthalpogram
enthalpy of activation
enzyme substrate electrode
enzyme thermistor
enzymes
enzymic decomposition
epi-phase
epicadmium neutrons
epithermal neutrons
equilibration
equilibrium electrode potential
Ernst angle
error
escape depth (for surface analysis techniques)
evaluation function
evanescent wave
Evans hole
evolved gas analysis
evolved gas detection
exchange extraction
exchange labelling
exchange spectroscopy
excimer laser
excimer-luminescence
exciplex-luminescence
excitation
excitation energy
excitation energy
excitation level
excitation profile
excitation sculpting
excitation-emission spectrum
exclusion chromatography
expected value
experimental absorbance
exponential decay
exposure
extended X-ray absorption fine structure
extent of reaction
external reflection spectroscopy
external standard
external standardization for quenching correction
extra-column volume
extract (noun)
extract (verb)
extractability
extractant
extracting agent
extraction
extraction (equilibrium) constant
extraction coefficient
extraction factor
extraction
extraction isotherm
extraordinary wave
extrapolated range
fall time
faradaic current
faradaic demodulation current
faradaic rectification current
Faraday cup collector
fast field cycling NMR relaxometry
fast neutrons
feedback
Fermi resonance
fertile
field effect phototransistor
field ionization
filling solution
film badge
filter
filter spectrometer
finesse
fingerprint bands
fingerprint region
fissile
fission fragments
fission neutrons
fission products
fission yield
fissionable
fitness for purpose
fixed ions
flame
flame atomic spectrometer
flame atomic spectroscopy
flame-in-tube atomizer
flash fluorimetry
flash lamps
flash vacuum pyrolysis
flip angle
flow analysis
flow enthalpimetry
flow injection
flow injection enthalpimetry
flow rate
flow resistance parameter
flow spoiler
flow-programmed chromatography
fluorescence
fluorescence error
fluorescence excitation
fluorescence yield
flux depression
flux monitor
flux perturbation
folding
forbidden line
formal electrode potential
formation constant
Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy
Fourier-transform Raman spectroscopy
fraction collector
fraction extracted
fragment ion
free induction decay
free spectral range
Fresnel reflection
front surface geometry
frontal chromatography
fronting
fuel cycle (nuclear)
fuel element (nuclear)
fuel reprocessing (nuclear)
full energy peak
full width at half maximum
furnace pyrolysis
G
value
gain
galvanic cell
gamma-ray spectrometry
gas chromatography
gas laser
gas sensing electrode
gas-filled phototube
gas-filled X-ray detector
gas-liquid chromatography
gas-solid chromatography
gate delay
gated decoupling
gated photodetector
Gaussian band
GD-OES spectrometers with simultaneous detection
Geiger counter
Geiger–Muller counter tube
gel permeation chromatography
generally labelled tracer
generator coupling efficiency
geometric mean
geometric attenuation
geometry (counting)
geometry factor
glass electrode error
glass laser
globally optimized alternating-phase rectangular pulses
glove box
glow discharge source
glow electric discharge
glow-discharge optical emission spectroscopy
good laboratory practice
good manufacturing practice
gradient elution
gradient layer
gradient packing
gradient-selected experiment
grazing incidence
Grimm-type cathode
group frequency
group preconcentration
growth curve
guard band
γ-cascade
H(CCO)NH
Hadamard transform spectrometer
half life
half thickness
half width at half maximum
half-peak potential
half-value thickness
half-wave potential
harmonic constant
harmonic mean
HBHA(CO)NH
HCCH-COSY
HCCH-TOCSY
heavy water
height equivalent to a theoretical plate (h.e.t.p.)
height equivalent to an effective theoretical plate
heterogeneity
heterogeneous catalysis
heterogeneous membrane electrode
heteronuclear decoupling
heteronuclear multiple bond correlation NMR
heteronuclear multiple-bond correlation over two bonds
heteronuclear multiple-quantum correlation NMR
heteronuclear multiple-quantum correlation with additional TOCSY transfer
heteronuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy
heteronuclear shift correlation NMR
heteronuclear single quantum correlation
heteronuclear single quantum correlation with additional TOCSY transfer
heteronuclear single quantum multiple-bond correlation
high resolution energy loss spectroscopy
high-pass filter
Hilbert transforms
HN(CA)CO
HN(CO)CA
HNCA
HNCO
hold-back carrier
hold-up volume
hold-up volume
hollow-cathode discharge source
hollow-cathode lamp
Holtsmark broadening
homogeneity
homogeneous line-broadening
homonuclear decoupling
horizontal elution
Horwitz equation
Horwitz ratio
hot atom
hot cell
hot transition
hydrogen gas electrode
hyper-Raman spectroscopy
hypersatellite
hyperspectral imaging
hypo-phase
hysteresis
in-vivo
neutron activation analysis
ideal chromatography
ideal, non-linear chromatography
image converter tube
image dissection tube
imaginary NMR spectrum
immobilized phase
immunoassay
immunoradiometric assay
imprecision
impregnation
improper rotation axis
in situ
micro-X-ray diffraction
in situ
microanalysis
in-house reference material
in-laboratory processing
inaccuracy
incident power
incredible natural-abundance double-quantum transfer experiment
increment (for bulk materials and large units)
indicator (visual)
indicator electrode
indifferent electrolyte
indirect amplification
indirectly-ionizing radiation
induced radioactivity
induced reaction
inductively-coupled plasma
inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry
inductively-coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy
inductively-coupled plasma robustness
inductively-coupled plasma spectrometry
inductively-coupled plasma thermal pinch
inductively-coupled plasma torch
inelastic electron tunnelling spectroscopy
infinite source thickness
infrared radiation
infrared spectroscopy
inhibitor
inhomogeneity error
inhomogeneous broadening
initial plasma radiation zone
initial rate method
injection temperature
inner orbital X-ray emission spectra
input rate
insensitive nuclei enhanced by polarization transfer
inspection
instantaneous current
instantaneous rate of flow
instrument line shape
instrumental activation analysis
instrumental dependability
instrumental indication (for a precision balance)
integral detector
integrated intensity
integration range
intensified charge coupled device detector
intensity (relative to base peak)
interchromophoric radiationless transition
interconal region
interference curve
interference fringes
interference
interference record
interferent
interfering lines
interfering substance
interferogram
interlaboratory comparison
intermediate measurement precision
intermediate neutrons
intermolecular radiationless transition
internal absorbance
internal filling solution
internal quality control
internal reference electrode
internal reflection
internal reflection element
internal standard
internal transmittance
interparticle porosity
interparticle volume of the column
interstitial fraction
interstitial velocity
interstitial volume
interzonal region
intrachromophoric radiationless transition
intralaboratory comparison
intrinsic detector efficiency
intrinsic full energy peak efficiency
intrinsic photopeak efficiency
inverse Bremsstrahlung
inverse Raman scattering
inverse spatially offset Raman spectroscopy
inverse square law
inversion pulse
inversion recovery sequence
inversion time
iodometric titration
ion
ion beam analysis
ion cyclotron resonance (ICR) mass spectrometer
ion exchange
ion exchanger
ion laser
ion microscopy
ion probe microanalysis
ion scattering spectrometry
ion-exchange chromatography
ion-exchange isotherm
ion-selective electrode
ion-selective electrode cell
ion/molecule reaction
ionic cloud
ionization buffer
ionization by sputtering
ionization chamber
ionization efficiency curve
ionizing radiation
ionizing voltage
ionogenic groups
irradiation
IRTRAN™
isobaric mass-change determination
isobaric separation
isoconfertic separation
isocratic analysis
isomeric state
isomeric transition
isopotential point
isopycnic separation
isothermal chromatography
isotones
isotope dilution
isotope dilution analysis
isotope effect
isotope exchange
isotope exchange analysis
isotopes
isotopic abundance
isotopic carrier
isotopic enrichment
isotopic enrichment factor
isotopic ion
isotopic label
isotopic labelling
isotopic separation
isotopic tracer
J-modulated spin-echo
J-resolved spectroscopy
Jacquinot stop
kinetic coupling
kinetic current
kinetic method
kinetic synergist
Knight shift
Kramers–Kronig transforms
KRS-5
Kubelka–Munk function
label
labelling
laboratory bias
laboratory information management system
laboratory sample
Landolt reaction
Larmor angular frequency
Larmor precession
laser
laser ablation
laser beam ionization
laser induced breakdown spectroscopy
laser ionization
laser micro emission spectroscopy
laser micro mass spectrometry
laser Raman microanalysis
laser-induced breakdown spectrum
laser-induced plasma
lateral resolution
laws of distribution
layer equilibrium
lifetime broadening
lifetime
light
limit of detection
limit of quantification
limiting adsorption current
limiting catalytic current
limiting current
limiting diffusion current
limiting kinetic current
limiting migration current
line profile
line-broadening
linear chromatography
linear dispersion
linear distribution isotherm
linear electron accelerator
linear energy transfer
linear Napierian absorption coefficient
linear polarizer
linear pulse amplifier
linearity of a measuring system
linearity of calibration
linearity of responsivity
liquid chromatography
liquid crystal tunable filter
liquid excimer laser
liquid ion exchange
liquid ion laser
liquid junction
liquid laser
liquid scintillation detector
liquid volume
liquid-coated stationary phase (material)
liquid-gel chromatography
liquid-liquid distribution (extraction) (partition)
liquid-liquid extraction
liquid-phase loading
live time
load (on a precision balance)
loading capacity
local efficiency of atomization
local fraction atomized
local fraction desolvated
local fraction volatilized
local mode
local molar polarizability
lock-in amplifier
logit
Lorentz broadening
lot
low energy electron diffraction
low pressure electrical discharge
low sample consumption system
low temperature UV–VIS absorption spectroscopy
low-pass filter
luminescence
luminescence quenching
luminescence spectrometer
machine
macroscopic cross-section
magic angle spinning
magnetic deflection
manipulator
manual
marker
mass (weight) of the stationary phase
mass distribution ratio
mass distribution ratio
mass distribution ratio
mass spectrometer
mass spectrometry
mass-flow sensitive detector
mass-transfer-controlled electrolyte rate constant
matched cells
material characterization study
material homogeneity
material recovery
material stability
matrix effect
matrix
matrix reference material
McLafferty rearrangement
mean
mean interstitial velocity of the carrier gas
mean life
mean linear range
mean mass range
measurable quantity
measured excitation spectrum
measured spectrum
measured value
measurement capability
measurement efficiency
measurement precision control material
measurement procedure
measurement procedure bias
measurement procedure with standard addition
measurement reproducibility
measurement result
measurement solution
measurement trueness control material
mechanical anharmonicity
mechanical entrapment
mechanical harmonicity
mechanization
median
membrane
membrane sites
mercury flow system
metastable
metastable state
metastable state
method performance study
metrological compatibility of measurement results
metrological equivalence of measurement results
microphotometer
microscopic cross-section
microwave cavity
microwave-induced plasma
migration current
migration time
migration time of micelles
milligram equivalent of readability
milling
minimum sample size
mixed crystal
mixed indicator
mixing
mobile phase
mobile-phase velocity
mode
mode
moderation
moderator
modified active solid
modified sample
modifier
Mohr amplification process
molar activity
molar decadic absorption coefficient
molar ellipticity
molar Napierian absorption coefficient
molecular anion
molecular cation
molecular ion
molecular laser
molecular spectra
molecular spectroscopy
molecularity
mono-energetic radiation
monoisotopic element
monolayer capacity
Mössbauer effect
Mössbauer spectrometry
multi-channel pulse height analyser
multiple attenuated total reflection
multiple-pass cell
multiple-quantum magic angle spinning NMR
multiplet
multiplex advantage
multiplex spectrometer
multiplicative matrix effect
multipole line
multistage sampling
muon induced X-ray emission analysis
Napierian absorbance
natural broadening
natural isotopic abundance
natural lifetime
natural linewidth
natural radiation
natural radioactivity
near edge X-ray absorption fine structure
near-infrared radiation
nebulization
nebulizer
negative ion
negaton
net absorption cross-section
net dephasing time
net faradaic current
neutron activation analysis
neutron density
neutron depth profiling
neutron diffraction analysis
neutron energy
neutron multiplication
neutron scattering analysis
neutron temperature
Nier–Johnson geometry
no carrier added
no-load indication (for a precision balance)
noise
noise
nominal linear flow
nominal spectral resolution
nominally labelled tracer
non-certified property value
non-crystalline electrodes
non-destructive activation analysis
non-dispersive infrared spectroscopies
non-ideal chromatography
non-ideal, linear chromatography
non-ideal, non-linear chromatography
non-isotopic labelling
non-linear chromatography
non-linear distribution isotherm
non-linearity error
non-radiative quenching
non-specific emission or attenuation
non-uniform sampling
normal coordinate
normal coordinate analysis
normal dispersion of the refractive index
normal incidence
normal mode
normal plasma analytical zone
normal X-ray level
normal-phase chromatography
normalized tunnelling intensity
nuclear capture
nuclear chemistry
nuclear decay
nuclear disintegration
nuclear electric quadrupole moment
nuclear fission
nuclear fuel
nuclear fusion
nuclear fusion reaction
nuclear isomers
nuclear level
nuclear magnetic resonance relaxometry
nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum
nuclear Overhauser effect
nuclear Overhauser effect difference spectroscopy
nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy
nuclear particle
nuclear quadrupole resonance spectroscopy
nuclear reactor
nuclear transformation
nuclear transition
nucleation
nucleus
nuclide
nuclide precursor
nuclidic mass
Nyquist criterion
Nyquist frequency
object traceability
observation frequency
occlusion (molecular)
open-tubular column
operational pH cell
operational pH standard
opposing reactions
optical absorption depth
optical constants
optical emission spectroscopy
optical null double beam spectrometer
optical path difference
optical rotatory dispersion
optical throughput
optical-beam error
order of reaction
ordinary wave
organic dye laser
organization
out-of-control criteria
output rate
overall efficiency of atomization
overtone transition
oxidation–reduction (redox) titration
oxygen-flask combustion
p-polarization
packed column
packing
pair attenuation coefficient
pair production
Pake doublet
Pallmann effect
parallel reactions
parent ion
partial decay constant
partial digestion
partial microscopic diffusion control
participant in an interlaboratory comparison
particle density
particle flux density
particle induced X-ray emission analysis
particle-induced gamma-ray-emission analysis
partition
partition chromatography
partition coefficient
partition constant
partition isotherm
partition ratio
path-length
pATR spectrum
peak analysis
peak area
peak area method
peak base
peak current
peak elution volume (time)
peak enthalpimetry
peak fitting
peak height
peak
peak maximum
peak potential
peak resolution
peak widths
pellicular packing
Penning excitation
Penning gas mixture
percentage error
percentage relative error
percentage standard deviation
percentage transmission
performance characteristic of a measurement procedure
performance score
perfusion stationary phase (material)
periodic voltage
permanent modifier
permeation chromatography
permselectivity
perturbed angular correlation spectrometry
pH
pH glass electrode
pH standard
pH
0.5
or pH
1/2
phase correction
phase cycling
phase fluorimetry
phase inversion
phase ratio
phase ratio
phosphorescence
phosphoroscope
photoacoustic detector
photoacoustic saturation
photoconductive detector
photodiode
photodiode array
photoelectric attenuation coefficient
photoelectric peak
photoelectrical effect
photoelectron spectroscopy
photoelectron yield
photoemissive detector
photoionization
photomultiplier tube
photon activation
photothermal spectroscopy
phototransistor
pile-up
PIN semiconductor detector
planar chromatography
plasma arc
plasma excitation temperature
plasma gases
plasma
plasma induction zone
plasma ionization temperature
plasma local thermodynamic equilibrium
plasma shielding
plasma termination
plate height
plate number
platform atomization
pneumatic detector
pneumatic nebulizers
polarization error
polarized Raman band
polarography
polychromator
polymeric stationary phase (material)
porous-layer open-tabular (PLOT) column
position-sensitive photomultiplier tube
positron
positron annihilation analysis
positron emission tomography
positron lifetime spectrometry
post-column derivatization
post-filter effect
postprecipitation
potential coupling
potentiometric selectivity coefficient
powder pattern
pre-equilibrium
pre-filter effect
precession
precipitation from homogeneous solution
precision
precision limit
precision
precision
precision of indication
preconcentration coefficient
preconcentration
precursor
precursor ion
preheating inductively-coupled plasma zone
premix burner
presaturation
pressure broadening
pressure gradient correction factor
pressure jump
pressure-sensitive detector
primary aerosol
primary electrons
primary pH standards
primary sample
procedure validation
procedure verification
process in a state of statistical control
proficiency test item
proficiency testing
proficiency testing provider
proficiency testing round
proficiency testing scheme
progenitor ion
program
programmed-flow chromatography
programmed-pressure chromatography
programmed-temperature chromatography
prolate trochoidal mass spectrometer
prompt coincidence
prompt gamma radiation
prompt gamma-ray analysis
prompt neutrons
property value assignment
proportional counter
proportional counter tube
proportional gas-scintillation counter
protocol for interlaboratory comparison
protonation constant
pulse amplitude analyser
pulse amplitude selector
pulse duration
pulse duration
pulse energy
pulse pile-up
pulse sequence
pulsed laser
pulsed-field gradient
pure shift yielded by chirp excitation
pyroelectric detector
pyrolysis curve
pyrolysis-gas chromatography
quadratic mean
quadrature detection
quadrupolar nuclide
quadrupolar relaxation
quadrupole mass analyser
qualitative analysis
qualitative elemental specificity
quality
quality control material
quality factor
quality improvement
quality management
quality management system
quality manual
quality objective
quality plan
quality planning
quality policy
quantitative analysis
quantized internal energy
quantum cascade laser
quantum counter
quarter-transition-time potential
quartz atomizer
quenching
quenching correction
γ-quantum
rabbit
radial electrostatic field analyser
radial elution (radial development) or circular elution (circular development)
radial viewing mode
radiation
radiation chemistry
radiation continuum
radiation counter
radiation damping
radiation detector
radiation filter
radiation hazard
radiation spectrum
radiationless transition
radiative absorption
radiative capture
radiative de-excitation
radiative transition
radioactive
radioactive age
radioactive contamination
radioactive cooling
radioactive dating
radioactive decay
radioactive equilibrium
radioactive fallout
radioactive source
radioactive steady state
radioactive tracer
radioactive tracer technique
radioactive waste
radioactivity
radiochemical activation analysis
radiochemical purification
radiochemical purity
radiochemical separation
radiochemical yield
radiochemistry
radiochromatograph
radiocolloid
radioenzymatic assay
radiofrequency
radiofrequency coil
radiofrequency generator
radiofrequency glow discharge optical emission spectroscopy
radiograph
radiogravimetric analysis
radioimmunoassay
radioiodination
radioisotope
radioisotope dilution analysis
radioisotope induced X-ray emission analysis
radiolysis
radiometric analysis
radiometric titration
radionuclide
radionuclidic purity
radioreceptor assay
radiorelease analysis
raffinate
Raman band
Raman optical activity
Raman scattering
Raman shift
Raman spectroscopy
Raman spectrum
Raman wavenumber shift
random coincidence
random sample
range
rapid-scan Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy
rate of liquid consumption
rate of nucleation
ratemeter
ratio
re-extraction
reaction chromatography
reaction time
readability
reading
real spectrum
rearrangement ion
received radiant flux density
recoil
recoil labelling
recovered quantity value ratio
recovery factor
recovery time
redox ion exchangers
reduced mobile phase velocity
reduced sample
reducing
referee sample
reference electrode
reference flux density
reference laboratory
reference material certificate
reference material certification
reference material certification report
reference material producer
reference method
reference value pH standard
reflected power
reflection
reflection electron energy loss spectroscopy
reflection high energy electron diffraction
reflection-absorption at grazing incidence
refraction effects
rejection interval
relative biological effectiveness
relative counting efficiency
relative counting
relative detection limit
relative preconcentration
relative retardation
relative retention
relative spectral responsivity
relative standard deviation
relaxation
relaxation kinetics
relaxation reagent
releaser
repeatability
repeatability condition of measurement
repetition rate
repetition time
replicate (duplicate) sample
report
reprecipitation
representative sample
reproducibility
requirement
reserve sample
residual current
residual dipolar coupling
residual liquid junction (potential) error
resolution
resolving power
resolving time correction
resolving time
resonance energy
resonance integral
resonance line
resonance neutrons
resonance Raman scattering
resonant inelastic X-ray scattering
response constant
response time
responsivity
rest point
result
retardation factor
retardation factor
retention factor
retention
retention index
retention temperature
retention time
retention volumes
reversed (radiochemical) isotope dilution analysis
reversed direct-injection burner
reversed-phase chromatography
RF value
riffling
RM value
rotating-frame NOE spectroscopy
rotation-vibration spectrum
rotational branch
rotational echo double resonance
ruggedness of a measurement procedure
run bias
Rutherford backscattering
α- (β-, γ-) ray spectrometer
γ-radiation
γ-ray spectrometer
Saha’s ionization equation
salt form of an ion exchanger
salting out
sample error
sample flux density
sample handling
sample
sample injector
sample pre-treatment
sample unit
sampler
sampling
sampling error
sampling increment
sampling interval
sampling plan
sampling target
sampling time
saturated solution
saturation
saturation activity
saturation
saturation transfer difference spectroscopy
saturator
scaler
scaling circuit
scanning electron microscopy
scanning proton microscopy
scanning transmission electron microscopy
scattering
scattering error
scattering geometry
scavenging
scintillation
scintillation counter
scintillation detector
scintillation spectrometer
scintillators
scrubbing
secondary electron multiplier
secondary electron yield
secondary electrons
secondary fluorescence
secondary radiation
secular equilibrium
segment
selective decoupling
selective elution
selective excitation
selective
selective micro-sample
selective preconcentration
selective pulse
selective sample
selectively-labelled isotopic tracer
selectivity
selectivity coefficient
selectivity factor
selectivity ratio
self-absorption
self-absorption broadening
self-absorption effect
self-absorption factor
self-reversal
self-shielding
semiconductor
semiconductor detector
semiconductor laser
sensitive area
sensitive volume
sensitivity
sensitivity
sensitivity of a measuring system
sensitized luminescence
separated flame
separation coefficient
separation factor
separation factor
separation number
separation temperature
sequential detection
sequential sample
sequential spectrometer
series
settling error
shelf life
Shewhart control chart
Shewhart control limit
Shewhart means chart
Shewhart range chart
shut-down state
shut-down time
signal
signal-to-noise ratio
simulation technique
simultaneous reactions
simultaneous spectrometer
single beam spectrum
single crystal nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
single escape peak
single-beam (luminescence) spectrometer
single-focusing mass spectrometer
singlet-singlet absorption
singlet-triplet absorption
site splitting
slit width
slow neutrons
SM-interference
solid phase antibody radioimmunoassay
solid support
solid volume
solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
solubility
solubility parameter
solubility product
solute
solute-volatilization interference
solution
solvent blank flux density
solvent extraction
solvent front
solvent
solvent ion exchange
solvent migration-distance
solvent nucleation
solvent regeneration
solvent suppression
solvent transport rate
sorption isotherm
sorption techniques
spark (source) ionization
spatial-distribution interference
spatially offset Raman spectroscopy
spatially resolving detector
specific activity (radionuclide)
specific activity
specific burn-up
specific detector
specific
specific ionization
specific permeability
specific retention volume
specifically labelled tracer
specified requirement
specimen
spectral background
spectral band
spectral bandwidth
spectral bandwidth error
spectral distribution
spectral interference
spectral line
spectral radiant energy density
spectral range
spectral resolution
spectral responsivity
spectral subtraction
spectral width
spectrochemical buffer
spectrochemical carrier
spectrogram
spectrograph
spectrometer
spectrometry
spectroscope
spectrum
spectrum analysis
specular reflection
spherical top
spike
spin
spin conservation rule
spin decoupling
spin echo
spin system
spin-lattice relaxation
spin-lattice relaxation time
spin-spin relaxation
spin-spin relaxation time
spinning sidebands
spontaneous fission
spot
spray chamber
sprayer
sputter rate
sputter yield
sputtering
square-wave current
stand-by state
standard deviation for proficiency assessment
standard deviation
standard operating procedure
standard solution
standard subtraction method
start-up time
starting line
static fields mass spectrometer
static magnetic flux density
stationary phase
stationary phase volume
stationary-phase fraction
statistical process control
steady state
steady state
step height
step
step-scan interferometer
stepwise elution
stereospecifically labelled tracer
stimulated Raman scattering
Stokes type radiation
Stokes–Raman scattering
stop-flow conditions
stopped flow
stopped-flow cell
stopping power
stratified sample
stray light
stray radiation error
streak tube
stripping
stripping isotherm
stripping ratio
stripping solution
sublation
subsample
substoichiometric extraction
substoichiometric isotope dilution analysis
substrate
sum band
sum transition
sum-frequency spectroscopy
summit current
summit potential
supercritical fluid
supercritical fluid chromatography
support plate
support-coated open-tubular (SCOT) column
supporting electrolyte
suppressor
surface
surface barrier semiconductor detector
surface contamination
surface coverage
surface-enhanced hyper-Raman spectroscopy
surface-enhanced infrared absorption
surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
surface-enhanced resonance Raman spectroscopy
surface-enhanced, spatially offset Raman spectroscopy
suspension effect
symmetric
symmetric top
symmetrization
symmetry coordinate
symmorphic space group
synchronously excited (fluorescence, phosphorescence) spectrum
synchrotron radiation
synchrotron radiation induced X-ray fluorescence analysis
synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy
synergism
systematic effect
Szilard–Chalmers effect
t
1
t
1
noise
t
2
tagged
tailing
target measurement uncertainty
temperature coefficient
temperature effect
temperature jump
temperature-programmed chromatography
term
tertiary aerosol
test portion
test sample
test solution
testing
thermal analysis
thermal column
thermal diffusion depth
thermal diffusivity
thermal dispersion
thermal fission
thermal ionization
thermal neutrons
thermal volatilization
thermal wave decay coefficient
thermochemical analysis
thermocouple
thermodilatometry
thermogram
thermogravimetry
thermometric
thermometric enthalpy titration
thermometric titration
thermopile
thickness of reaction layer
thin-layer chromatography
three-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
throughput rate
time constant
time domain
time domain nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
time-of-flight mass spectrometer
time-resolved laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy
tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
titrant
titration
titration curve
titration error
titre
tolerance
tolerance interval
tolerance limit
torsional braid analysis
total correlation spectroscopy
total internal reflection
total ion current
total quality management
total reflection X-ray fluorescence analysis
total retention volume
total sample consumption system
total suppression of spinning sidebands
total velocity of the analyte
totally porous packing
trace element
traceability
tracer
track (nuclear)
track detector (nuclear)
transducer
transfer activity coefficient
transfer
transflectance
transflection
transition interval
transition time
transmission electron energy loss spectroscopy
transmission electron microscopy
transmission high energy electron diffraction
transmission Raman spectroscopy
transmission spectrum
transport efficiency
transport
transport interference
transverse relaxation optimized spectroscopy
treated solution
triple-resonance nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
triplet-triplet absorption
true coincidence
true value
tunable laser
two-dimensional chromatography
two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy
two-dimensional correlation spectrum
two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
two-site immunoradiometric assay
ultimate capacity
ultrasonic nebulizers
umpire sample
undersampling
uniformly labelled tracer
unit
unitary quantity
universal detector
UV photoelectron spectroscopy
vacuum phototube
validation
value of a division
vaporization temperature
vapour phase interference
variable pathlength cell
variable
variance
verification
vibrational circular dichroism
vibrational eigenvector
vibrational kinetic energy
vibrational potential energy
vibrational spectroscopy
vibrational term value
vidicon
Voigt function
volatilizer
voltage
voltammetric constant
volume of the stationary phase
volume reflection
volumetric flowrate
volumic
wall atomization
wall-coated open-tubular (WCOT) column
wash out time
wave height (electrochemical)
wavelength converter
wavelength dispersion
wavelength error
wavelength in medium
wavelength in vacuum
wavelength-dispersive X-ray fluorescence analysis
wavenumber in medium
wavenumber in vacuum
weighted mean
Westcott cross-section
wideband, alternating-phase, low-power technique for residual splitting
Wiegner effect
Wilzbach labelling
working electrode
working interval
working range
X-radiation
X-ray absorption analysis
X-ray absorption edge
X-ray absorption near edge structure
X-ray analysis
X-ray computed micro-tomography
X-ray diffraction analysis
X-ray emission spectrum
X-ray escape peak
X-ray fluorescence
X-ray fluorescence analysis
X-ray fluorescence microscopy
X-ray intensity
X-ray level
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
X-ray satellite
X-ray spectroscopy
Youden plot
Zeeman effect
Zeeman levels
zero filling
zero path difference
zero point
zero point of scale
zero-field nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
zone
zone melting method of preconcentration