Title: sample controlled technique
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - sample controlled technique
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.12302
Status: current

Definition
Applied to the technique to indicate that a property of the sample is used either continuously or discontinuously to control the sample heating. Without this term, it is assumed that the experiment is following a controlled-temperature program.

Note
The generic term for all TA techniques making use of such feedback is sample-controlled TA (SCTA), whereas specific names will be of the form sample-controlled TGA (SC-TGA), etc.

Source
- PAC, 2014, 86, 545. 'ICTAC nomenclature of thermal analysis (IUPAC Recommendations 2014)' on page 549 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2012-0609)

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Citation: Citation: 'sample controlled technique' 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.12302
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