Relative response factor
The detector response of an impurity per unit mass, relative to the parent. Assumed to be 1.00 in almost all purity determinations, and usually is not.
Related terms
- Area percent
- Purity expressed as the main peak's integrated area divided by the total integrated area of all peaks, times 100. A relative quantity. It is not a concentration and not a content.
- Uncertainty budget
- An itemised account of every contribution to a measurement's uncertainty. No supplier certificate in this index contains one.
see also Standard uncertainty (u)
Where this term appears
The glossary exists to make record pages readable without a chemistry degree. Every technical term on a report resolves here.
- Assay report records — the term appears in result tables, peak tables and provenance blocks
- Method references — where the measurement behind the term is defined
- All 37 glossary terms beginning with R