Title: primary reference examination procedure
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - primary reference examination procedure
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.10023
Status: current

Definition
Reference examination procedure used to obtain an examination result without relation to an examination standard for a nominal property of the same kind-of-nominal-property.

Related Terms
- Reference examination procedure: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10022
- examination result: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09999
- examination standard: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10019
- kind-of-nominal-property: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09980
- nominal property: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09979

Source
- PAC, 2018, 90, 913. 'Vocabulary on nominal property, examination, and related concepts for clinical laboratory sciences (IFCC-IUPAC Recommendations 2017)' on page 930 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2011-0613)

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Citation: Citation: 'primary reference examination procedure' 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.10023
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