Materials set the standard

A National Institute Of Standards and Technology product story

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Oct 17, 2003

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published its new comprehensive standard reference materials catalogue.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published its new comprehensive standard reference materials catalogue.

NIST supplies industry, academia, government, and other users with over 1300 reference materials of the highest quality and metrological value.

These standards are currently available for use in industrial materials production and analysis, environmental analysis, health measurements and basic measurements in science and metrology.

Standard reference materials (SRMs) have been used by NIST as vehicles for transferring measurement science and technology, through channels of industry and commerce, to the nation at large.

As such, SRMs are crucial reference points in the establishment of a comprehensive measurement system for the entire nation.

This system has met the needs of US industry and commerce for nearly one hundred years and continues to evolve to satisfy more demanding measurement requirements as well as increasing demands on quality and traceability.

The standard reference materials catalogue lists these reference materials with carefully assigned values for chemical composition and physical properties.