Reference material produced and used by an analytical laboratory.
Notes: - The preparation, characterization, and use of in-house reference materials for quality control purposes are described in ISO Guide 80.
- Various terms are used to distinguish among reference materials intended for different uses and with assigned values established applying different procedures.
See also: conventional quantity value, property value assignment
Source:
PAC, 2021, 93, 997. 'Metrological and quality concepts in analytical chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 2021)' on page 1027 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0819)