https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.A00218
A known amount of a homogeneous material, assumed to be taken with negligible portion is an aliquant of ). When a
sampling error
. The term is usually applied to fluids. The term 'aliquot' is usually used when the fractional part is an exact divisor of the whole; the term 'aliquant' has been used when the fractional part is not an exact divisor of the whole (e.g. a laboratory sample
or test sample
is 'aliquoted' or otherwise subdivided, the portions have been called split samples.