12325 IUPAC Gold Book - accelerating potential 10.1351/goldbook.12325 12325 current 1 Electrical potential difference used to impart translational energy to ions. Accelerating voltage is often used as a synonym, but the terms are equivalent only in the case of a static accelerating potential. PAC, 2013, 85, 1515. 'Definitions of terms relating to mass spectrometry (IUPAC Recommendations 2013)' on page 1519 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-06-04-06) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/12325/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/12325/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/12325/plain Citation: 'accelerating potential' 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.12325 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. 2026-06-20T07:39:38+00:00