Title: reference examination procedure
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - reference examination procedure
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.10022
Status: current

Definition
Examination procedure accepted as providing examination results fit for their intended use in assessing examination trueness of examined values) obtained from other examination procedures for nominal properties of the same kind-of-nominal-property, in examination calibration, or in characterizing nominal reference materials.

Examples
1) A reference examination procedure provided by a perfume firm to identify smells.
2) The official examination procedure for car technical control (involving both measurements and nominal examination).

Related Terms
- Examination procedure: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09990
- examination: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09984
- examination calibration: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/10021
- examination results: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09999
- examination trueness: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/10003
- examined values: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/10000
- kind-of-nominal-property: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09980
- nominal properties: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09979
- nominal reference materials: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/10020

Source
- PAC, 2018, 90, 913. 'Vocabulary on nominal property, examination, and related concepts for clinical laboratory sciences (IFCC-IUPAC Recommendations 2017)' on page 929 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2011-0613)

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- json: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10022/json
- xml: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10022/xml

Citation: Citation: 'reference examination procedure' 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.10022
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