03046 IUPAC Gold Book - inner electric potential 10.1351/goldbook.I03046 I03046 current quantity 1 Quantity the gradient of which is equal to the negative of the electric field strength within the phase concerned. It can be calculated from the model of the phase. It is sometimes called the Galvani potential. gradient https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/G02669 Green Book, 2nd ed., p. 59 (https://goldbook.iupac.org/files/pdf/green_book_2ed.pdf) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/I03046/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/I03046/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/I03046/plain Citation: 'inner electric 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.I03046 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. 2026-07-14T17:17:51+00:00