08725 IUPAC Gold Book - external standardization for quenching correction 10.1351/goldbook.08725 08725 current 1 Measurement method to obtain a quenching correction through the use of a gamma-radiation source to generate a spectrum of Compton electrons within the sample vial. Compton scattering analysis https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08720 PAC, 2021, 93, 69. 'Vocabulary of radioanalytical methods (IUPAC Recommendations 2020)' on page 80 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0302) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08725/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08725/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08725/plain Citation: 'external standardization for quenching correction' 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.08725 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. 2026-05-18T03:40:31+00:00