A quantity of material transferred on one occasion and covered by a single set of
shipping documents. It may consist of one or more lots or portions of lots. The presence
of different lots in a consignment is important from the point of view of the sampling
plan and the interpretation of the results of analysis. The term '
population' is used as the general term for the quantity of parent material being sampled when
it is immaterial if the parent body is a consignment, lot, batch, entity, etc.
Source:
PAC, 1990, 62, 1193
(Nomenclature for sampling in analytical chemistry (Recommendations 1990))
on page 1201
Cite as:
IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book"). Compiled by
A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).
XML on-line corrected version: http://goldbook.iupac.org (2006-) created by M. Nic,
J. Jirat, B. Kosata; updates compiled by A. Jenkins. ISBN 0-9678550-9-8.
https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.
