01811 IUPAC Gold Book - distribution 10.1351/goldbook.D01811 D01811 current 1 The apportionment of a solute between two phases. The term partition or extraction may also be used in this sense where appropriate. extraction https://dev.goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/E02301 partition https://dev.goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/P04435 PAC, 1993, 65, 2373. 'Nomenclature for liquid-liquid distribution (solvent extraction) (IUPAC Recommendations 1993)' on page 2377 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199365112373) https://dev.goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/D01811/html https://dev.goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/D01811/json https://dev.goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/D01811/plain Citation: 'distribution' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.D01811 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-03-13T16:54:35+00:00