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For ensuring the traceability and uniformity of measurement results, the main objectives of national metrology programmes in chemistry are to calibrate and verify measuring instruments, to evaluate the uncertainty of measurement results and to intercompare the analytical results, etc. The concept of traceability has developed recently in chemical measurements, thus, an attempt to implement the principles of metrological traceability especially by appropriateness calibration using composition certified reference materials (CRMs) is underlined. Interlaboratory comparisons are also a useful response to the need for comparable results. The paper presents some aspects and practices in the field of spectrometric measurement regarding the metrological quality of the traceability by calibrating the instruments using suitable and reliable CRMs. The uncertainty of results, as a measure of the reliability that can be placed on them, has been adequately described in different documents and, as a consequence, some examples of evaluating the measurement uncertainty are described. The relationship between uncertainty and traceability, as two fundamental concepts of metrology which are intimately linked, is underlined.
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Duta, S. (2000). The use of certified reference materials in the Romanian traceability scheme. In: De Bièvre, P., Günzler, H. (eds) Traceability in Chemical Measurement. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27093-0_33
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