Explore: Reference Materials

calibration of instruments. A certified reference material is a particular form of measurement standard. Reference materials are particularly important for analytical

Its referent may be anything – a material object, a person, an event, an activity, or an abstract concept. References can take on many forms, including:

A reference work is a document, such as a paper, book or periodical (or their electronic equivalents), to which one can refer for information. The information

The Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (IRMM), located in Geel, Belgium, is one of the seven institutes of the Joint Research Centre (JRC)

Materials science is an interdisciplinary field of researching and discovering materials. Materials engineering is an engineering field of finding uses

Isotopic reference materials are compounds (solids, liquids, gasses) with well-defined isotopic compositions and are the ultimate sources of accuracy

Canadian Reference Materials (CRM) are certified reference materials of high-quality and reliability produced by the National Metrology Institute of Canada

professional librarians provide library users with direction to library materials, advice on library collections and services, and expertise on multiple

define multiple materials. Materials are defined one after another in the file, each starting with the newmtl command: # define a material named 'Colored'

available in homes, with reference works becoming available online as well. The conversion of previously print-only reference materials to electronic format