Term `chemon' instead of `amount of substance' allows a succinct systematic terminology and harmonized equivalents in translation

Metrologia

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 301-304

  Dybkoer R ^a  

^a FREDERIKSBERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; TERMINOLOGY;

CHEMON;

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY;

EID: 17744371429     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/37/4/6     Document Type: Article

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