{"term":{"id":"04692","title":"plateau border","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - plateau border","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.P04692","code":"P04692","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Except for free-floating bubbles, films have to be supported by frames, bulk surfaces or other films. The transition zone separating these from the film proper, always containing some bulk liquid, is called a plateau border.","contexts":[],"links":[{"term":"film","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/F02366"}],"sources":["PAC, 1972, 31, 577. 'Manual of Symbols and Terminology for Physicochemical Quantities and Units, Appendix II: Definitions, Terminology and Symbols in Colloid and Surface Chemistry' on page 613 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/pac197231040577)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/P04692\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/P04692\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/P04692\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'plateau border' 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.P04692","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":"2026-07-24T22:53:59+00:00"}}