01149 IUPAC Gold Book - collection efficiency 10.1351/goldbook.C01149 C01149 current 1 A term which characterizes an entire sampling and sample pretreatment procedure, usually represented as a percentage of the original amount of the analyte which is left for measurement (signal formation) after having passed through this procedure. This term also applies to the efficiency of collection of an air pollutant by an arrestment plant. For particulates, the collection efficiency is size related. air pollutant https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/A00194 collection https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/C01148 PAC, 1990, 62, 2167. 'Glossary of atmospheric chemistry terms (Recommendations 1990)' on page 2181 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199062112167) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/C01149/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/C01149/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/C01149/plain Citation: 'collection efficiency' 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.C01149 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. 2026-06-28T20:43:50+00:00