01071 IUPAC Gold Book - chromatogram 10.1351/goldbook.C01071 C01071 current 1 A graphical or other presentation of detector response, concentration of analyte in the effluent or other quantity used as a measure of effluent concentration versus effluent volume or time. In planar chromatography 'chromatogram' may refer to the paper or layer with the separated zones. effluent https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/E01910 planar chromatography https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/P04682 PAC, 1990, 62, 2167. 'Glossary of atmospheric chemistry terms (Recommendations 1990)' on page 2179 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199062112167) PAC, 1993, 65, 819. 'Nomenclature for chromatography (IUPAC Recommendations 1993)' on page 823 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199365040819) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/C01071/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/C01071/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/C01071/plain Citation: 'chromatogram' 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.C01071 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. 2026-07-25T12:54:45+00:00