09293 IUPAC Gold Book - surface map 10.1351/goldbook.09293 09293 current 1 Two- or three-dimensional representation of the sample surface where the information at each point in the representation, given by a brightness or colour or as a length in a third dimension, is related to the output signal from a detector or processed intensity information from the available software. chemical map https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09236 elemental map https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09248 PAC, 2020, 92, 1781. 'Glossary of methods and terms used in surface chemical analysis (IUPAC Recommendations 2020)' on page 1816 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0404) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09293/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09293/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09293/plain Citation: 'surface map' 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.09293 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. 2026-05-09T10:49:53+00:00