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Uniform structure or composition of a material with respect to one or more specified properties.
Notes:
- A material is said to be homogeneous with respect to a specified quantity if the quantity values measured using aliquots of a specified size do not fall outside a specified interval. See minimum sample size.
- In the homogeneity study of a candidate reference material, it is distinguished whether the analytical samples are taken from different supply units or from a single supply unit ("termed between-bottle homogeneity" or "within-bottle homogeneity", respectively).
- Inhomogeneity is a source of measurement uncertainty.
- Detailed guidance for the assessment of homogeneity of reference materials is given in ISO Guide 35.