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Slot: total acid number (tan)

Total Acid Number (TAN) is a measurement of acidity that is determined by the amount of potassium hydroxide in milligrams that is needed to neutralize the acids in one gram of oil. It is an important quality measurement of crude oil. (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_acid_number)

URI: MIXS:0000120

Applicable Classes

Name Description Modifies Slot
Biosample Biological source material which can be characterized by an experiment no

Properties

Identifier and Mapping Information

Annotations

property value
Preferred_unit milligram per liter

Schema Source

Mappings

Mapping Type Mapped Value
self MIXS:0000120

LinkML Source

name: tan
annotations:
  Preferred_unit:
    tag: Preferred_unit
    value: milligram per liter
  storage_units:
    tag: storage_units
    value: mg/L
description: 'Total Acid Number  (TAN) is a measurement of acidity that is determined
  by the amount of  potassium hydroxide  in milligrams that is needed to neutralize
  the acids in one gram of oil.  It is an important quality measurement of  crude
  oil. (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_acid_number)'
title: total acid number
from_schema: https://w3id.org/nmdc/nmdc
rank: 1000
keywords:
- number
- total
slot_uri: MIXS:0000120
alias: tan
domain_of:
- Biosample
range: QuantityValue
recommended: true
structured_pattern:
  syntax: ^{scientific_float}( *- *{scientific_float})? *{text}$
  interpolated: true
  partial_match: true