{"term":{"id":"06164","title":"surface contamination","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - surface contamination","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.S06164","code":"S06164","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Material in the experimental surface which is either not characteristic of the sample or which would not be present if the sample had been prepared in an absolute vacuum by methods not contacting other substances to the sample.","contexts":[],"sources":["PAC, 1979, 51, 2243. 'General aspects of trace analytical methods—IV. Recommendations for nomenclature, standard procedures and reporting of experimental data for surface analysis techniques' on page 2247 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/pac197951112243)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/S06164\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/S06164\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/S06164\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'surface contamination' 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.S06164","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":"2026-05-03T10:34:29+00:00"}}