The Eurachem reading list

1. Introduction to metrology and terminology

CIPM Mutual recognition arrangement (MRA) of national measurement standards and of calibration and measurement certificates issued by national metrology institutes (www.bipm.org/en/cipm-mra/)
ISO online browsing platform – access ISO standards, terms and definitions (www.iso.org/obp/ui/)
VIM Definitions with Informative Annotations, JCGM-WG2 (https://jcgm.bipm.org/vim/en/index.html)

BIPM, IEC, IFCC, ILAC, ISO, IUPAC, IUPAP, OIML. JCGM 200:2012 (JCGM 200:2008 with minor corrections), International vocabulary of metrology – Basic and general concepts and associated terms (VIM3) (www.bipm.org) (Earlier version printed as ISO Guide 99:2007 (www.iso.org)
ISO 80000-1:2009. Quantities and units – Part 1: General (and Corrigendum 1:2011) (www.iso.org)

V. Barwick, E. Prichard (Eds), Terminology in analytical measurement – Introduction to VIM3, Eurachem, 2011, ISBN 978 0 948926 29 7 (www.eurachem.org/index.php/publications/guides)
A beginner’s guide to measurement, v3, Good practice guide no. 118, NPL, 2010, ISSN: 1368-6550 (www.npl.co.uk)
Metrology – In short, 3rd Edition, EURAMET, 2008 (www.euramet.org)
The International System of Units (SI), 9th Edition, 2006 (updated in 2019) (www.bipm.org)

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://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook)
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)
IUPAC Compendium of analytical nomenclature, (‘Orange Book’), 3rd Edition, 1997, ISBN 0-86542-615-5 (http://old.iupac.org/publications/analytical_compendium/)

Eurachem information leaflet
- You talk, we understand – The way out of the tower of Babel [An introduction to measurement terminology] (2015) (www.eurachem.org/index.php/publications/leaflets)
AMC Technical Briefs, RSC,
(www.rsc.org/Membership/Networking/InterestGroups/Analytical/AMC/TechnicalBriefs.asp):
- AMC TB 86-2019 Revision of the International System of Units (Background paper)
- AMC TB 76-2016, Chemical metrology
- AMC TB 19-2005, Terminology – the key to understanding analytical science. Part 2: Sampling and sample preparation
- AMC TB 13-2003, Terminology – the key to understanding analytical science. Part 1: Accuracy, precision and uncertainty

W. Horwitz, Nomenclature for sampling in analytical chemistry, Pure Appl. Chem., 1990, 62, 1193-1208, http://dx.doi.org/10.1351/pac199062061193

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