A term which expresses qualitatively the extent to which other substances interfere
with the determination of a substance according to a given procedure.
Source:
PAC, 1983, 55, 553
(Recommendations for the usage of selective, selectivity and related terms in analytical
chemistry)
on page 555
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.
