[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR200.104]

[Page 361]
 
                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
 CHAPTER II--NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY, DEPARTMENT 
                               OF COMMERCE
 
PART 200--POLICIES, SERVICES, PROCEDURES, AND FEES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 200.104  Standard reference materials.

    Often the performance of a device or structure can be evaluated at 
the user's laboratory by comparing its response to unknown materials 
with its response to a stable, homogeneous reference specimen which has 
been well-characterized with regard to the physical or chemical property 
being measured. For information regarding carefully characterized 
materials see Subchapter B, Chapter II, Part 230, of this title. The 
Office of Standard Reference Materials in the NIST National Measurement 
Laboratory administers a program to provide many types of well-
characterized materials that are needed to calibrate a measurement 
system or to produce scientific data that can be readily referred to a 
common base. NIST SP 260 is a catalog of Standard Reference Materials 
available from NIST.