{"term":{"id":"02416","title":"flash fluorimetry","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - flash fluorimetry","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.F02416","code":"F02416","status":"current","synonym":"<em>synonym<\/em>: phosphorimetry","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"The term used when decay times luminescence are measured using a pulsed source of radiation. It is often necessary to separate the signal due to the light flash from luminescence emission signal by a deconvolution technique in order to obtain the correct decay curve for emission. Decay times corrected for this effect are termed corrected decay times of fluorescence or phosphorescence.","links":[{"term":"decay curve","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/D01539"},{"term":"fluorescence","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/F02453"},{"term":"luminescence","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/L03641"},{"term":"phosphorescence","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/P04569"},{"term":"radiation","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/R05048"}],"sources":["PAC, 1984, 56, 231. 'Nomenclature, symbols, units and their usage in spectrochemical analysis-Part VI: molecular luminescence spectroscopy' on page 242 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/pac198456020231)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/F02416\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/F02416\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/F02416\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'flash fluorimetry' 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.F02416","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":"2026-05-31T04:05:17+00:00"}}