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IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology

 

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fabric filter
fac-
factor
factor-group splitting
fallout (in atmospheric chemistry)
fall time
fanning (in atmospheric chemistry)
farad
faradaic current
faradaic current density
faradaic demodulation current
faradaic rectification current
Faraday constant
Faraday cup (or cylinder) collector
fast atom bombardment ionization
fast-atom bombardment (FAB) mass spectroscopy
fast neutrons
fatty acids
feedback (in analysis)
feedback (in kinetics)
feed-back inhibition (end product inhibition)(in biotechnology)
feed rate (in catalysis)
femto
fenestranes
Fenton reaction
fermentation
fermenter
fermi
Fermi energy
Fermi level
fermion
feromone
ferredoxin
ferrimagnetic transition
ferrocenophanes
ferroelastic transition
ferro-electric polymer
ferroelectric (antiferroelectric) transition
ferroic transition
ferromagnetic polymer
ferromagnetic transition
fertile (in radioanalytical chemistry)
f-functional branch point
f-functional branch unit
fibrillar morphology
fibrous activated carbon
fibrous carbon
fibrous crystal (in polymers)
fiducial group
field desorption (in mass spectrometry)
field effect
field effect phototransistor
field ionization (in mass spectrometry)
field level
filamentous carbon
filler
filler coke
filling solution (of a reference electrode)
film
film badge (in radioanalytical chemistry)
film element
film tension
filter
filter (of a radiation)
filter spectrometer
filtration
fine structure constant, alpha
first-order phase transition
first-pass effect
Fischer projection (Fischer-Tollens projection)
Fischer-Rosanoff convention (or Rosanoff convention)
Fischer-Tollens projection
fissile (in radioanalytical chemistry)
fissionable
fission fragment ionization (in mass spectrometry)
fission fragments
fission neutrons
fission products
fission yield
fixed ions
fixed neutral loss (gain) scan (in mass spectrometry)
fixed neutral loss (gain) spectrum (in mass spectrometry)
fixed precursor ion scan (in mass spectrometry)
fixed product ion scan (in mass spectrometry)
fixed product ion spectrum (in mass spectrometry)
flagpole
flame-in-tube atomizer (in spectrochemical analysis)
flame ionization detector (in gas chromatography)
flame photometric detector (in gas chromatography)
flame photometry
flammable limits
flash fluorimetry (phosphorimetry)
flash lamps
flash photolysis
flash point
flash vacuum pyrolysis (FVP)
flat band potential (at a semiconductor/solution interphase)
flat bands
flavins
flavonoids (isoflavonoids and neoflavonoids)
flavoproteins
flavylium salts
floating monolayer
floc
flocculation
floccule
Flory-Huggins theory
flotation
flow analysis
flow birefringence
flow enthalpimetry
flow injection
flow injection enthalpimetry
flow-programmed chromatography
flow rate (in chromatography)
flow rate (in flame emission and absorption spectrometry)
flow rate (of a quantity)
flow rate of unburnt gas mixture (in flame spectrometry)
flow reactor
flow resistance parameter (in chromatography),
flue gas (in atmospheric chemistry)
flue gas scrubber (in atmospheric chemistry)
fluence, F, psi, H
fluid coke
fluidity, phi
fluidized bed
fluoresceins
fluorescence
fluorescence error (in spectrochemical analysis)
fluorescence excitation (of X-rays)
fluorescence yield
fluorimeter
fluorocarbons
fluorohydrins
flux (of a quantity), JX
flux depression
fluxional
fly ash (in atmospheric chemistry)
f number
foam
foam fractionation
foaming agent
fog
fog horizon (in atmospheric chemistry)
folates
fold (in polymer crystals)
fold domain (in polymer crystals)
folded-chain crystal (in polymers)
fold plane (in polymer crystals)
fold surface (in polymer crystals)
foot
forbidden line (in X-ray spectroscopy)
force, F
force constants
force field
force-field calculation
foreign-gas broadening
formamidine disulfides
formation constant
formazans
Forster cycle
Forster excitation transfer (dipole-dipole excitation transfer)
forward scattering
fossil fuel
fouling (in membrane processes)
fouling agent (in catalysis)
Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometer
Fourier transform spectrometer
fraction
fractional bond number
fractional change of a quantity
fractional selectivity (in catalysis)
fractionation (of analytes)
fractionation (of polymers)
fraction collector (in chromatography)
fraction extracted, E
fragmentation
fragmentation reaction (in mass spectrometry)
fragment ion (in mass spectrometry)
frame-shift mutation
Franck-Condon principle
Franck-Condon state
franklin
free charge density on the interface
free electron laser
free energy
freely draining
freely jointed chain (in polymers)
freely rotating chain (in polymers)
free radical
free rotation (hindered rotation, restricted rotation)
free-running laser
free spiro union
free valence
freezing
freezing out (in atmospheric chemistry)
frequency, f, nu
frequency distribution
frequency doubling
frictional coefficient (in polymer chemistry), f
friction coefficient
friction factor, mu
fringed-micelle model (in polymer crystals)
frontal chromatography
frontier function
frontier orbitals
fronting (in chromatography)
front surface geometry (in luminescence)
frost point hygrometer
froth flotation
Frumkin effect
fucolipid
fuel cycle (nuclear)
fuel element (nuclear)
fuel reprocessing (nuclear)
fugacity, f
fugacity coefficient, phi
fulgides
full energy peak
fullerenes
fulminates
fulvalenes
fulvenes
fume (in atmospheric chemistry)
fumes
fumigation (in atmospheric chemistry)
functional class name
functional group
functional parent
functional polymer
fungicide
furanocoumarins
furanoses
furnace black
furnace pyrolysis (in spectrochemical analysis)
furocoumarins
fusion (in biotechnology)
fusion name
FWHM (Full Width at Half Maximum)


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