05585 IUPAC Gold Book - self-quenching 10.1351/goldbook.S05585 S05585 current 1 Quenching of an excited atom or molecular entity by interaction with another atom or molecular entity of the same species in the ground state. Quenching https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/Q05007 Stern–Volmer kinetic relationships https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/S06004 ground state https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/G02704 PAC, 1996, 68, 2223. 'Glossary of terms used in photochemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 1996)' on page 2273 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199668122223) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/S05585/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/S05585/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/S05585/plain Citation: 'self-quenching' 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.S05585 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. 2026-05-09T09:25:51+00:00