05672 IUPAC Gold Book - silver film 10.1351/goldbook.S05672 S05672 current 1 When viewed in reflected white light against a black background, transparent films show the classical interference colours of thin plates which permit an estimate of their thickness to be made. When of the order of \(100\ \rm{nm}\) (\(1000\ \unicode{x212B}\)) in thickness they appear white (silver film) and when thinner they appear gradually less intensely white, then grey and finally black. film https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/F02366 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 614 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac197231040577) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/S05672/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/S05672/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/S05672/plain Citation: 'silver film' 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.S05672 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. 2026-07-23T22:51:01+00:00