Stable ion
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Orange Book entry
Orange Book
| ORANGE BOOK DEFINITION IUPAC. Analytical Division. Compendium of Analytical Nomenclature (the Orange Book). Definitive Rules, 1979 (see also Orange Book 2023) | 
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| An ion which is not sufficiently excited to dissociate spontaneously into a daughter ion and associated neutral fragment(s) or to react further before reaching the detector. | 
| IUPAC 1997 Orange Book Chapter 12 | 
| Index of Orange Book Terms | 
Gold Book entry
Gold Book
| GOLD BOOK DEFINITION IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the Gold Book). Compiled by A. D. McNaught and A.Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997). | 
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| http://goldbook.iupac.org/S05902.html An ion which is not sufficiently excited to dissociate spontaneously into a daughter ion and associated neutral fragment(s) or to react further in any other way within the time scale of the experiment, e.g. until hitting the detector. Source: PAC, 1991, 63, 1541 (Recommendations for nomenclature and symbolism for mass spectroscopy (including an appendix of terms used in vacuum technology). (Recommendations 1991)) on page 1550 | 
| IUPAC Gold Book | 
| Index of Gold Book Terms | 
See also
| See additional comments on the Stable ion discussion page (archive of discussion between 2004 and 2006) | 
