Protocols for traceability in chemical analysis |
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Authors: | P De Bièvre Robert Kaarls H Steffen Peiser S D Rasberry William P Reed |
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Institution: | (1) Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, European Commission-JRC, B-2440 Geel, Belgium, BE;(2) Netherlands Measurements Institute, 2600 AR Delft, The Netherlands, NL;(3) National Insitute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA, US |
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Abstract: | In continuing their attempt to bring general issues concerned with trustworthy chemical measurements to review and international
discussion, the authors propose basic aims and requirements for protocols of chemical-measurement procedures with traceability
to the SI or, where this is not possible, to units of internationally recognized measurement scales. Documents describing
such protocols could be useful in science, technology, law, or trade. Concepts and definitions for protocols have been introduced
in Part I of this contribution. Part II here deals with the development and application of protocols for intended in-laboratory,
commercial, national, or international recognition. Protocols deal with measurement methods, instrumentation, and the estimation
of uncertainties from all possible sources of measurement errors. Uncertainties define the quality of all links in a traceability
chain starting from the value of a measurand in a sample, often through a certified value in a reference material, either
to the SI, or – if this is not possible – to a value on a suitable, internationally agreed measurement scale. A protocol may
concern itself with the complex interplay between uncertainties, tolerances, and any limit values introduced by the set aims
of specific measurements.
Received: 23 April 1997 Accepted: 27 April 1997 |
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Keywords: | Traceability Protocol analysis Reference Material Uncertainty |
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