Aliquot

Definitions

1. A portion of a total amount (of some substance or a sample or specimen thereof, usually a solution or suspension).
   broadly
2. Such a portion that divides evenly into the total with no remainder.
   broadly

Equivalents

Examples

“Meronym: subaliquot”

“1965 December 1, Martha Smith Richmond, Analysis of Uranium Concentrates at the National Bureau of Standards, National Bureau of Standards, NBS Misc. Publ. 260-8, page 26, Two aliquots each of 57 sample solutions and 15 solutions of NBS Standard No. 950a were assayed.”

“11.5.3 For each sample or sample batch (to a maximum of 20 samples) to be extracted during the same 12-hour shift, weigh⟳ two 10 g aliquots of the appropriate reference matrix (Section 7.6) into clean⟳ beakers or glass jars.”

“Composite samples are formed by physically mixing aliquots of individual samples. If aliquots of equal volumes are used, then the composite sample values are simply the arithmetic averages of individual sample values.”

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