Title: transport efficiency
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - transport efficiency
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.08560
Status: current

Definition
Mass of analyte entering the atomizer of a flame atomic spectrometer or the plasma of an inductively-coupled plasma spectrometer divided by the mass of analyte entering the dispersion device.

Related Term
- flame atomic spectrometer: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08474

Source
- PAC, 2021, 93, 647. 'Glossary of methods and terms used in analytical spectroscopy (IUPAC Recommendations 2019)' on page 736 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0203)

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Citation: Citation: 'transport efficiency' 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.08560
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