Allotrope Foundation Ontology (REC/2019/09)

A temperature controlled chamber is a chamber or enclosed space in which a temperature can be controlled and set to a specific value. [Allotrope]

The reservoir is a container that stores solutions. [Allotrope]

A piece of apparatus used to measure a spectrum by illumination with light. [Allotrope]

A piece of apparatus used to measure a spectrum. [CHMO]

An optical device is a device that creates, manipulates, or measures electromagnetic radiation. [Wikipedia]

A separation column is a separation device of columnar shape where the separation occurs inside the column. [Allotrope]

A repetition setting is a control setting that specifies the number of times an action is to be repeated. [Allotrope]

A material separation function is a function that increases the resolution between two or more material entities. The to distinction between the entities is usually based on some associated physical quality. [OBI]

A filter function is a function to prevent the flow of certain entities based on a quality or qualities of the entity while allowing entities which have different qualities to pass through. [OBI]

A material function is a type of function that is realized in a process that has material entity as input and/or output. [Allotrope]

To remove material is the function to remove material. [NIST]

A gas is an airlike material that expands freely to fill any space available. It can be transported in compressed gas cylinders and acts as a gas upon release at normal temperatures and pressure. [Allotrope]

A solid is a substance that is in the solid material state. [Allotrope]

A fluid is a substance that continually deforms (flows) under an applied shear stress. Fluids are a subset of the phases of matter and include liquids, gases, plasmas and, to some extent, plastic solids. [Wikipedia]

A supercritical fluid is a gas whose temperature and pressure are above the critical temperature and critical pressure. In this state, the distinction between liquid and gas disappears. [Wikipedia]

A liquid is a nearly incompressible fluid that conforms to the shape of its container but retains a (nearly) constant volume independent of pressure. [Wikipedia]

Plasma is a state of matter in which an ionized gaseous substance becomes highly electrically conductive to the point that long-range electric and magnetic fields dominate the behaviour of the matter. [Wikipedia]

A solid heterogeneous mixture is a heterogeneous mixture in solid state. [Allotrope]

A dispersions is a heterogeneous mixture that is comprising more than one phase where at least one of the phases consists of finely divided phase domains, often in the colloidal size range, dispersed throughout a continuous phase. [IUPAC]

An organizational entity is a person, group or organization that is defined by some social contract between humans. [Allotrope]

A process that affects, creates or destroys information content. [Allotrope]

A heat treatment that alters the microstructure of a material causing changes in its properties such as strength and hardness. [CHMO]

Spectra combination is a data transformation that combines multiple spectra. [Allotrope]

Sample preparation is a planned preparation process that synthesizes, converts or changes a sample. [Allotrope]

An experiment in which a separation method is coupled to a detection method in order to detect one or more different components of a sample. [CHMO]

Signal averaging is a process of combining spectra of repeated measurements in order to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. [Allotrope]

Background measurement is the process of determination of the base level of signals without presence of a sample. [Allotrope]

background measurement of particle sizing in order to measure the electrical noise as well as laser scattering due to contamination of the optical parts or the dispersant

A measurement that targets the pressure of some material entity. [Allotrope]

A process that affects the physical qualities of materials or creates, destroys or converts materials. [Allotrope]

A quality process profile that tracks some pressure. [Allotrope]

Temperature profile is a quality process profile that tracks temperature. [Allotrope]

Transmitting energy is transferring an energy from one place to another. [Allotrope, NIST]

A process where an agent affects energy flowing in and out of a system or affecting the energetic state of materials. [Allotrope]

Storing material is the storing of material. [Allotrope]

Storing energy is the storing of energy. [Allotrope]

A spatial processing of transferring material into a site. [Allotrope]

A physical process that occurs in the mind of a sentient being and is processing information. [Allotrope]

Transporting is channeling by shifting, or conveying, a material from one place to another. [NIST]

A separating of materials. [Allotrope]

A spatial process of removing a material from a site. [Allotrope]

Delivering material is the importing of material to a location or site. [Allotrope]

A sequential process is a composite process that has sequential subprocesses as occurrent parts. The starts of all subprocesses occur in sequential order. The ends of all subprocesses occur at the end of the sequential process at the latest. [Allotrope]

A sequential analysis process is a planned sequential process that has analytical subprocesses as sequential occurrent parts. [Allotrope]

A temperature configuration is a device configuration of a temperature controlling or monitoring device, that controls or monitors the target temperature at the site of some system component. [Allotrope]

An oven thermostat has a temperature configuration that controls the heating.

A flow rate configuration is a device configuration of a fluid controlling or monitoring device, that controls or monitors the flow rate at the site of some system component. [Allotrope]

A concentration ratio configuration is a device configuration of a fluid controlling or monitoring device, that controls or monitors the concentration ratio of a mixture at the site of some system component. [Allotrope]

A volume configuration is a device configuration of a controlling or monitoring device, that controls or monitors the volume of some material at the site of some system component. [Allotrope]

Polarity configuration is a device configuration that sets a specific detector or sensor response to be positive or negative to a reference state. [Allotrope]

The description of a chemical moiety or material that is assigned to a peak. [Allotrope]

The weighing result is the result of a weighing process. [Allotrope]

A plot of a measured quantity against some experimental parameter. [CHMO]

A temperature measurement result is an assay result that is the output of a temperature measurement. [Allotrope]

The final outcome reported for a measured or computed quantity, after performing a measuring procedure including all sub procedures and evaluations. [IUPAC, Allotrope]

An absorption spectrum is a data distribution function that plots the absorption of radiance as the function of frequency or wavelength. [Wikipedia]

A three-dimensional spectrum generated by scanning the emission spectrum at incremental steps of excitation wavelength. [CHMO]

The result of a titration run. [Allotrope]

The capillary electrophoresis result is the result of a process of capillary electrophoresis. [Allotrope]

A profile is a data distribution function that is a function of time. [Allotrope]

The readout from a microplate reader measurement. [Allotrope]

A trend is the result of a process of trending. [Allotrope]

In infrared spectroscopy the intensities of peaks over time can be used to monitor compound concentration increase/decrease of a chemical reaction over time.

In Raman spectroscopy a trend a result based on a collection of spectra. [Allotrope]

A fingerprint is a type of or portion of spectrum that has a characteristic structure. It can be used as a fingerprint for comparison to reference spectra. [Allotrope]

Infrared spectra are fingerprints. The fingerprint region of an IR spectrum lies between 1500 and 500 cm-1 while a complete IR spectrum normally has a range from 4000 to 500 cm-1. Note that the overlay is synonym for the same activity (fingerprinting).

A distribution is a collection of frequencies of results of a sample. Each frequency is number of occurrences within a given interval. The distribution can be expressed relatively to the width of the interval. [Allotrope]

A particle sizing result is the outcome of a process of particle sizing. [Allotrope]

Result of a spectroscopical measurement. [Allotrope]

An overlay of scans is a graphic overlay of generated spectra for comparison. [Allotrope]

A function specification that specifies the ways of achievement. [Allotrope]

Sample id is a measurement metadata that identifies a sample being measured. [Allotrope]

Equipment serial number is a serial number that identifies an equipment used in the measuring by its serial number. [Allotrope]

The batch identifier is measurement metadata that identifies the batch where a sample is taken from for being measured. [Allotrope]

Measurement id is measurement metadata that identifies the measuring run. [Allotrope]

A sampling specification is an action specification of the way a sampling is done. [Allotrope]

The peak maximum point is the data point of the peak with the largest ordinate value. [Allotrope]

A temperature setting is a setting that specifies some temperature configuration of a temperature controlling or monitoring device, that controls or monitors the target temperature at the site of some system component. [Allotrope]

The analysis assay result is the assay result of an analysis assay. [Allotrope]

An analysis assay result facet is a facet of an analysis assay result. [Allotrope]

A volume setting is a setting that specifies some volume configuration of a controlling or monitoring device, that controls or monitors the volume of some material at the site of some system component. [Allotrope]

A concentration ratio setting is a setting that specifies some concentration ratio configuration of a fluid controlling or monitoring device, that controls or monitors the concentration ratio of a mixture at the site of some system component. [Allotrope]

A flow rate setting is a setting that specifies some flow rate configuration of a fluid controlling or monitoring device, that controls or monitors the flow rate at the site of some system component. [Allotrope]

The integration time is the time when the integration of signals is done in a measurement system. [Allotrope]

The number of averages is the number of individual values taken for calculating a mean value. [Allotrope]

The number of measurement averages is the number of averages of sub measurement results taken to produce an average measurement result. [Allotrope]

Polarity setting is a setting that specifies a polarity configuration of a specific detector or sensor response to be positive or negative to a reference state. [Allotrope]

A duration setting is a setting that specifies the duration of a planned process or when a situation should trigger. [Allotrope]

A general role if its bearer is the input of the process that realizes the role. The bearer exists at the beginning of the process but not necessarily at its end. [Allotrope]

Material input is a role of a material that is an input in a process. [Allotrope]

An operating maximum is the contextual role of a description or specification of an upper bound of quality of a system or environment during the operation of the system. [Allotrope]

An operating range is the contextual role of a description or specification about a operating situation (qualities of a system or its environment) during the normal operation of the system. [Allotrope]

A general role if its bearer is the output of the process that realizes the role. The bearer exists at the end of the process but not necessarily at its beginning. [Allotrope]

A device that is selected to perform a specific function in a process. [Allotrope]

Specified action is the role of information object that specifies an activity. [Allotrope]

Specified capability is the contextual role of an information object that specifies a capability. [Allotrope]

A specified quality is the contextual role of an information object that describes a quality as part of an specification. [Allotrope]

A specified situation is the contextual role of an information object that describes a portion of reality as part of a specification. [Allotrope]

Specified procedure is the contextual role of an information object that specifies a flow of activities. [Allotrope]

Specified profile is the contextual role of an information object that specifies a process profile. [Allotrope]

A support role is a type of role whose bearer participates in a process in order to support the process so that it proceeds towards a secondary objective. [Allotrope]

A general role is either a role that is realized in a process or a contextual role in that process. [Allotrope]

The role of a participant that delivers the necessary effects as active participant in the process to the operand. [Allotrope]

Material output role is a role of a material that is participant at the end of a process. [Allotrope]

A signal is a role of some material entity that disposed to provide information. In the physical world, any quantity exhibiting variation in time or variation in space (such as an image) is potentially a signal that might provide information on the status of a physical system, or convey a message between observers, among other possibilities. [Allotrope, Wikipedia]

"Physical input" is a role of a material or energy that is input in a process. [Allotrope]

"Physical input" is a role of a material or energy that is input in a process. [Allotrope]

The role of a participant that is being changed in the process (passive participant) from an input state to an output state. [Allotrope]

Agentive role is a general role of a material entity or software that influences the behavior of a process in an active way. If a material entity it is an agent role, if its is a software that is executed by a computer system, it is a software agent role. [Allotrope]

An environmental material is a fiat object which forms the medium or part of the medium of an environmental system. [ENVO]

A system which has the disposition to environ one or more material entities. [ENVO]

A processual entity that realizes a plan which is the concretization of a plan specification. [IAO]

Injecting mice with a vaccine in order to test its efficacy

Is a material entity that is created or changed during material processing. [OBI]

Examples include gel matrices, filter paper, parafilm and buffer solutions, mass spectrometer, tissue samples