Title: base kind of quantity
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - base kind of quantity
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.B00603
Status: current

Definition
A kind of quantity considered dimensionally independent of other kinds of quantities, i.e. it is not defined by an equation containing other kinds of quantities, e.g. length, mass, amount of substance.

Related Term
- amount of substance: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/A00297

Source
- PAC, 1979, 51, 2451. 'Quantities and Units in Clinical Chemistry' on page 2459 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac197951122451)

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Citation: Citation: 'base kind of quantity' 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.B00603
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