ISO 31

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ISO 31 (Quantities and units, International Organization for Standardization, 1992) is a superseded international standard concerning physical quantities, units of measurement, their interrelationships and their presentation. [1] It was revised and replaced by ISO/IEC 80000.

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Parts

The standard comes in 14 parts:

A second international standard on quantities and units was IEC 60027. [2] The ISO 31 and IEC 60027 Standards were revised by the two standardization organizations in collaboration (, ) to integrate both standards into a joint standard ISO/IEC 80000 - Quantities and Units in which the quantities and equations used with SI are to be referred as the International System of Quantities (ISQ). ISO/IEC 80000 supersedes both ISO 31 and part of IEC 60027.

Coined words

ISO 31-0 introduced several new words into the English language that are direct spelling-calques from the French. [3] Some of these words have been used in scientific literature. [4] [5] [6] [7]

New phraseExisting phraseTechnical meaning
massic <quantity>specific <quantity> a quantity divided by its associated mass
volumic <quantity>[volumic] <quantity> densitya quantity divided by its associated volume
areic <quantity>surface <quantity> densitya quantity divided by its associated area
lineic <quantity>linear <quantity> densitya quantity divided by its associated length

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Notes

  1. ↑ "ISO 31-0:1992 Quantities and units — Part 0: General principles". International Organization for Standardization. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
  2. ↑ Tolga, G. O. K. (2016). The importance of symbols and units in natural science. The Eurasia Proceedings of Educational and Social Sciences, 4, 165-167.
  3. ↑ NIST SP811(§8.9)
  4. ↑ Mills, I. (1993). Quantities, units and symbols in physical chemistry/prepared for publication by Ian Mills...[et al.]. Oxford; Boston: Blackwell Science; Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press [distributor].
  5. ↑ Taylor, B. (1995). Guide for the use of the International System of Units (SI): the metric system. DIANE Publishing.
  6. ↑ Dietrich, P. M.; Streeck, C.; Glamsch, S.; Ehlert, C.; Lippitz, A.; Nutsch, A.; Beckhoff, B.; W. E. S., Unger (2015). "Quantification of silane molecules on oxidized silicon: are there options for a traceable and absolute determination?". Analytical Chemistry. 87 (19): 10117–10124. Bibcode:2015AnaCh..8710117D. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b02846 . PMID   26334589.
  7. ↑ Sertlek, H. Ö.; Slabbekoorn, H.; Ten Cate, C.; Ainslie, M. A. (2019). "Source specific sound mapping: Spatial, temporal and spectral distribution of sound in the Dutch North Sea". Environmental Pollution. 247: 1143–1157. Bibcode:2019EPoll.247.1143S. doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2019.01.119. PMID   30823343.

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