Lab glossary
Reference standard
A highly characterised substance of known purity used as the basis for quantitative comparison.
- Also: RS
Where you will meet this term
- InstrumentHigh Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
- InstrumentUV-Visible Spectrophotometer
- InstrumentThin-Layer Chromatography (TLC)
- InstrumentHigh-Performance Thin-Layer Chromatography (HPTLC)
- InstrumentGas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS)
- InstrumentNuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer
- InstrumentMicrobalance
- InstrumentMelting Point Apparatus
- InstrumentEndotoxin (LAL) reader