The Eurachem reading list

1. Introduction to metrology and terminology

Websites and web resources

Standards

Guides

  • V. Barwick (Ed) Eurachem Guide: Terminology in analytical measurement – Introduction to VIM3 (2nd ed. 2023). ISBN 978-0-948926-40-2 (www.eurachem.org)
  • A beginner’s guide to measurement, v3, Good practice guide no. 118, NPL, 2010, ISSN: 1368-6550 (www.npl.co.uk)
  • The International System of Units (SI), 9th Edition, 2019 (v2.01, December 2022) (www.bipm.org)

Books

  • Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the ‘Gold Book’). Compiled by A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997). Online version (2019-) created by S. J. Chalk. ISBN 0-9678550-9-8. (https://goldbook.iupac.org/)
  • IUPAC Quantities, units and symbols in physical chemistry (‘Green Book’), 3rd Edition, 2007, ISBN 978-0-85404-433-7 (https://iupac.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IUPAC-GB3-2012-2ndPrintingPDFsearchable.pdf)
  • Compendium of terminology in analytical chemistry (‘Orange Book), 4th edition, D. Brynn Hibbert (Ed), The Royal Society of Chemistry (2023), ISBN (print): 978-1-78262-947-4, https://doi.org/10.1039/9781788012881 (note that material on metrological and quality concepts is published as an IUPAC Recommendation – see Articles and reports section)

Leaflets

Articles and reports

  • D. Brynn Hibbert, E-H Korte, U. Örnemark, Metrological and quality concepts in analytical chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 2021), Pure Appl. Chem., 2021, 93 (9), 997-1048, https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0819
  • H. Goenaga Infante, J. Warren, J. Chalmers, G. Dent, J. L. Todoli, J. Collingwood, N. Telling, M. Resano, A. Limbeck, T. Schoenberger, D. B. Hibbert, A. LeGresley, K. Adams, D. Craston, Glossary of methods and terms used in analytical spectroscopy (IUPAC Recommendations 2019), Pure Appl. Chem., 2021, 93 (6), 647-776, https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0203
  • Z. Chai, A. Chatt, P. Bode, J. Kučera, R. Greenberg, D. B. Hibbert, Vocabulary of radioanalytical methods (IUPAC Recommendations 2020), Pure Appl. Chem., 2021, 93 (1), 69-111, https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0302
  • J. M. Pingarrón, J. Labuda, J. Barek, C. M. A. Brett, M. F. Camões, M. Fojta, D. B. Hibbert, Terminology of electrochemical methods of analysis (IUPAC Recommendations 2019), Pure Appl. Chem., 2020, 92 (4), 641-694, https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2018-0109
  • T. Takeuchi, A. J. McQuillan, A. Shard, A. E. Russell, D. B. Hibbert, Glossary of methods and terms used in surface chemical analysis (IUPAC Recommendations 2020), Pure Appl. Chem., 2020, 92 (11), 1781-1860, https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0404
  • J. Labuda, R. P. Bowater, M. Fojta, G. Gauglitz, Z. Glatz, I. Hapala, J. Havliš, F. Kilar, A. Kilar, L. Malinovská, H. M. M. Sirén, P. Skládal, F. Torta, M. Valachovič, M. Wimmerová, Z. Zdráhal, D. B. Hibbert, Terminology of bioanalytical methods (IUPAC Recommendations 2018), Pure App. Chem., 2018, 90 (7), 1121-1198, https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2016-1120
  • M. F. Camões, G. D. Christian, D. B. Hibbert, Mass and volume in analytical chemistry (IUPAC Technical Report), Pure Appl. Chem., 2018, 90 (3), 563-603, https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2017-0410
  • T. A. Maryutina, E. Y. Savonina, P. S. Fedotov, R. M. Smith, H. Siren, D. B. Hibbert, Terminology of separation methods (IUPAC Recommendations 2017), Pure Appl. Chem., 2018, 90 (1), 181-231, https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2017-0111
  • C. Poole, Z. Mester, M. Miró, S. Pedersen-Bjergaard, J. Pawliszyn, Extraction for analytical scale sample preparation (IUPAC Technical Report), Pure Appl. Chem., 2016, 88 (7), 649-687, https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0705
  • D.B. Hibbert, Vocabulary of concepts and terms in chemometrics (IUPAC Recommendations 2016), Pure Appl. Chem., 2016, 88 (4), 407-443, https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0605
  • T. Lever, P. Haines, J. Rouquerol, E. L. Charsley, P. Van Eckeren, D. J. Burlett, ICTAC nomenclature of thermal analysis (IUPAC Recommendations 2014), Pure Appl. Chem., 2014, 86 (4), 545-553, https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2012-0609
  • K. K. Murray, R. K. Boyd, M. N. Eberlin, J. G. Langley, L. Li, Y. Naito, Definitions of terms relating to mass spectrometry (IUPAC Recommendations 2013), Pure Appl. Chem., 2013, 85 (7), 1515-1609, https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-06-04-06

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