08491 IUPAC Gold Book - inductively-coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy 10.1351/goldbook.08491 08491 current initialism: ICP-OES 1 Measurement method of atomic spectroscopy that uses an inductively-coupled plasma to excite and ionize atoms with measurement of the number and kind of ions in the plasma from their emission of electromagnetic radiation (see optical emission spectroscopy). atomic spectroscopy https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08216 electromagnetic radiation https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08242 inductively-coupled plasma https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08488 optical emission spectroscopy https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08513 PAC, 2021, 93, 647. 'Glossary of methods and terms used in analytical spectroscopy (IUPAC Recommendations 2019)' on page 722 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0203) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08491/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08491/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08491/plain Citation: 'inductively-coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy' 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.08491 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. 2026-05-30T13:15:57+00:00