Title: thermal curve
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - thermal curve
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.12313
Status: current

Definition
Any graph of any combination of property, time, temperature derived from a thermal analysis technique.

Notes
1) Thermal curve is a loose abbreviation of the more correct term thermoanalytical curve.
2) This term is discouraged.

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: 'thermal curve' 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.12313
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