{"term":{"id":"10192","title":"cryogenic trap","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - cryogenic trap","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.10192","code":"10192","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Device used to concentrate volatile analytes from the gas phase by condensation on a cold surface.","notes":{"1":"Typically, cryogenic traps have a low thermal mass to respond rapidly to changes in temperature and are prepared from short lengths of capillary tubing. Sub-ambient temperatures are required for the efficient collection of analytes from a flowing gas stream and above ambient temperatures for evaporation into a flowing gas stream for analysis, usually by gas chromatography or atomic spectrometry."},"sources":["PAC, 2016, 88, 517. 'Glossary of terms used in extraction (IUPAC Recommendations 2016)' on page 527 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/pac-2015-0903)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/10192\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/10192\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/10192\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'cryogenic trap' 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.10192","license":"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.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"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.","accessed":"2026-07-28T08:59:18+00:00"}}