{"term":{"id":"06149","title":"supporting electrolyte","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - supporting electrolyte","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.S06149","code":"S06149","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"An electrolyte solution, whose constituents are not electroactive in the range of applied potentials being studied, and whose ionic strength (and, therefore, contribution to the conductivity) is usually much larger than the concentration of an electroactive substance to be dissolved in it.","links":[{"term":"applied potentials","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/A00424"},{"term":"electroactive substance","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/E01940"},{"term":"ionic strength","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/I03180"}],"sources":["PAC, 1985, 57, 1491. 'Recommended terms, symbols, and definitions for electroanalytical chemistry (Recommendations 1985)' on page 1501 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/pac198557101491)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/S06149\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/S06149\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/S06149\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'supporting electrolyte' 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.S06149","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":"2026-04-18T11:07:38+00:00"}}