08042 IUPAC Gold Book - sample pre-treatment 10.1351/goldbook.08042 08042 current synonym: sample preparation 1 Collective noun for all procedures used for conditioning a sample to a defined state which allows subsequent chemical analysis or long-term storage (see material stability). Sample pre-treatment includes, for example, mixing, splitting, drying, crushing, stabilization, dissolving, extracting, diluting, precipitating, and derivatizing. chemical analysis https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08004 material stability https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08027 PAC, 2021, 93, 997. 'Metrological and quality concepts in analytical chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 2021)' on page 1016 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0819) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08042/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08042/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08042/plain Citation: 'sample pre-treatment' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.08042 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-07-02T07:29:06+00:00