10233 IUPAC Gold Book - closed-vessel acid digestion 10.1351/goldbook.10233 10233 current 1 Type of acid digestion performed in a closed vessel at elevated pressure. The increased rate of decomposition and retention of volatile trace elements is an advantage over open-vessel acid digestion. acid digestion https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/10232 open-vessel acid digestion https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/10236 PAC, 2016, 88, 517. 'Glossary of terms used in extraction (IUPAC Recommendations 2016)' on page 540 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0903) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10233/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10233/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10233/plain Citation: 'closed-vessel acid digestion' 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.10233 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. 2026-06-07T04:27:28+00:00