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  <id>09998</id>
  <title>reference nominal property value</title>
  <longtitle>IUPAC Gold Book - reference nominal property value</longtitle>
  <doi>10.1351/goldbook.09998</doi>
  <code>09998</code>
  <status>current</status>
  <definitions>
    <item>
      <id>1</id>
      <text>Nominal property value used as a basis for comparison with nominal property values of nominal properties of the same kind-of-nominal-property.</text>
      <notes>
        <item>A reference nominal property value can be a true nominal property value of an examinand, in which case it is unknown, or a conventional nominal property value, in which case it is known.</item>
      </notes>
      <links>
        <item>
          <term>Nominal property value</term>
          <url>https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09996</url>
        </item>
        <item>
          <term>conventional nominal property value</term>
          <url>https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/10002</url>
        </item>
        <item>
          <term>examinand</term>
          <url>https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09985</url>
        </item>
        <item>
          <term>kind-of-nominal-property</term>
          <url>https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09980</url>
        </item>
        <item>
          <term>nominal properties</term>
          <url>https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09979</url>
        </item>
        <item>
          <term>true nominal property value</term>
          <url>https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/10001</url>
        </item>
      </links>
      <sources>
        <item>PAC, 2018, 90, 913. 'Vocabulary on nominal property, examination, and related concepts for clinical laboratory sciences (IFCC-IUPAC Recommendations 2017)' on page 922 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2011-0613)</item>
      </sources>
    </item>
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  <citation>Citation: 'reference nominal property value' 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.09998</citation>
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  <accessed>2026-05-06T17:55:14+00:00</accessed>
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