08481 IUPAC Gold Book - glow discharge source 10.1351/goldbook.08481 08481 current 1 Component of an atomic emission spectrometer employing a glow electric discharge used in atomic emission spectroscopy for qualitative and quantitative analysis of solid materials. Glow discharge allows volatilization as well as excitation of analytes and sample matrices. atomic emission spectrometer https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08452 glow electric discharge https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08482 PAC, 2021, 93, 647. 'Glossary of methods and terms used in analytical spectroscopy (IUPAC Recommendations 2019)' on page 720 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0203) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08481/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08481/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08481/plain Citation: 'glow discharge source' 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.08481 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. 2026-06-21T02:20:01+00:00