The term originally signified that a correction was made (not made) for the emergent
stem of the thermometer. In current usage it often means that the accuracy of the
thermometer was (was not) verified. This current usage is inappropriate and should
be abandoned.
Source:
PAC, 1994, 66, 1077
(Glossary of terms used in physical organic chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 1994))
on page 1139
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A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).
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