{"term":{"id":"06472","title":"transition time","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - transition time","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.T06472","code":"T06472","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"In chronopotentiometry and related techniques, the time that elapses between the instant at which current is applied and the instant at which the concentration of an electroactive substance B at the electrode-solution interface becomes indistinguishable from zero. In experimental practice the latter time is often taken to be the instant at which the rate of variation of the potential of the indicator electrode attains a maximum value.","contexts":[],"links":[{"term":"electroactive substance","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/E01940"},{"term":"indicator electrode","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/I03006"},{"term":"interface","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/I03082"}],"sources":["PAC, 1985, 57, 1491. 'Recommended terms, symbols, and definitions for electroanalytical chemistry (Recommendations 1985)' on page 1504 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/pac198557101491)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/T06472\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/T06472\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/T06472\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'transition 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.T06472","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":"2026-07-23T01:05:12+00:00"}}