14307 IUPAC Gold Book - dispersed phase 10.1351/goldbook.14307 14307 current 1 Phase constituted of particles of any size and of any nature dispersed in a continuous phase of a different composition. continuous phase https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14308 PAC, 2011, 83, 2229. 'Terminology of polymers and polymerization processes in dispersed systems (IUPAC Recommendations 2011)' on page 2236 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-10-06-03) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14307/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14307/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14307/plain Citation: 'dispersed phase' 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.14307 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. 2026-05-09T18:16:11+00:00