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Accuracy and Precision of Microtrac Particle Size Analyzers Philip E. Plantz, PhD Application Note SL-AN-06 RevA Provided By: Microtrac, Inc. Particle Size Measuring Instrumentation Introduction Accuracy and precision have distinct meanings. Generally, accuracy refers to the ability of an analytical device to provide a measurement that is within a defined error from an established, true, and verifiable value. Precision is a measure of the recurrence of a value whether it is accurate or not. Two types of precision can be described: repeatability and reproducibility. In terms of particle size measurement, repeatability refers to the ability of an instrument to repeat its own measurement while the same sample resides in the circulating system. Reproducibility, on the other hand, is related to the comparison of two or more instruments in which representative (repeatable sampling assumed) samples are introduced to each of the instruments. Repeatability is statistically more variation-free than reproducibility because a single instrument measures the same recirculating sample when fluid suspended particles are measured. Accuracy Accuracy is a concept that is difficult to define for particle size measurement of irregularly shaped particles. For a sphere, one can easily define its surface and diameter using the radius of the particle and the basics of geometry. If 100% of the particles are spherical and are the same size, an instrument can be designed to measure that size. Since probably 99% of the industrial particles measured are not spherical (they are usually very irregularly shaped), one cannot use simple geometry to define the size since many dimensions will exist for each particle. This situation is made more complex since while most powder processes produce reproducible particle size distributions, they usually do not produce p articles of exactly the same shape and size. Since there are billions upon billions of particles being produc