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href="P04436.html">partition chromatography</a></span></td><td></td><td align="right"><span class="small"><a class="hidden-link" href="P04438.html">partition constant, <img src="/web/20121008081901im_/http://goldbook.iupac.org/MathML/P04438-0.png" class="math" alt="K D o" height="24px" width="23px" style="vertical-align: -10.0px"/> </a></span></td></tr></table><h1>partition coefficient<span class="obsoleted"> [obsolete]</span></h1><div class="item-body"> This term is not recommended and should not be used as a synonym for <a href="P04438.html" class="internal-link">partition constant</a>, <a href="P04440.html" class="internal-link">partition ratio</a> or <a href="D01817.html" class="internal-link">distribution ratio</a>. <div class="seeAlso"><span class="seeAlso-title">See also: </span><a href="D01813.html" class="internal-link">distribution constant</a></div> <div class="source-title">Source: </div><div class="source"><a href="src_PAC1993652373.html"> PAC, 1993, <i>65</i>, 2373</a><i> (Nomenclature for liquid-liquid distribution (solvent extraction) (IUPAC Recommendations 1993)) </i> on page 2385</div> <div class="source"><a href="src_PAC199668957.html"> PAC, 1996, <i>68</i>, 957</a><i> (Glossary of terms in quantities and units in Clinical Chemistry (IUPAC-IFCC Recommendations 1996)) </i> on page 986</div> </div><table class="analysis"><tr><td colspan="3"><b>Interactive Link Maps</b></td></tr><tr><td>First Level</td><td>Second Level</td><td>Third Level</td></tr><tr><td><a href="./Graphs/P04437.1.map.html"><img src="/web/20121008081901im_/http://goldbook.iupac.org/Graphs/P04437.1.thumb.png" alt="Graph"/></a></td><td><a href="./Graphs/P04437.2.map.html"><img src="/web/20121008081901im_/http://goldbook.iupac.org/Graphs/P04437.2.thumb.png" alt="Graph"/></a></td><td><a href="./Graphs/P04437.3.map.html"><img src="/web/20121008081901im_/http://goldbook.iupac.org/Graphs/P04437.3.thumb.png" alt="Graph"/></a></td></tr></table><div class="citeInfo"> Cite as:<br/> IUPAC. 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