{"term":{"id":"00922","title":"cell error","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - cell error","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.C00922","code":"C00922","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"The error which results if the incident beam does not fall perpendicularly to the windows of the cell, or if the cell windows are contaminated or have some other imperfection.","contexts":[],"sources":["PAC, 1988, 60, 1449. 'Nomenclature, symbols, units and their usage in spectrochemical analysis - VII. Molecular absorption spectroscopy, ultraviolet and visible (UV\/VIS) (Recommendations 1988)' on page 1457 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/pac198860091449)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/C00922\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/C00922\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/C00922\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'cell error' 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.C00922","license":"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.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"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.","accessed":"2026-07-25T16:32:04+00:00"}}