06409 IUPAC Gold Book - total consumption time 10.1351/goldbook.T06409 T06409 current quantity 1 The time necessary to consume the prepared sample completely (in \(\mathrm{s}\)). It is equal to the volume of the prepared sample divided by the rate of fluid consumption. PAC, 1986, 58, 1737. 'Quantities and units in clinical chemistry: Nebulizer and flame properties in flame emission and absorption spectrometry (Recommendations 1986)' on page 1740 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac198658121737) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/T06409/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/T06409/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/T06409/plain Citation: 'total consumption time' 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.T06409 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. 2026-06-10T22:20:52+00:00