Substances specifying physical state or physical form

Overview

Concepts specifying a particular physical state (e.g. liquid, solid, fumes, vapor, crystal, foam) of a substance should be represented as the sibling for the unspecified substance and also have a parent concept that relates to the structure of the substance.

Concepts specifying a particular physical form (e.g. micronized, macrocrystal, microsphere) should have a parent concept that relates to the structure of the substance and also an Is modification of (attribute) relationship to the unspecified substance concept.

Modeling - Micronized substance

Parent concept	Most distal appropriate descendant of 105590001 |Substance (substance)| An additional parent concept to be allocated to denote physical form as appropriate
Semantic tag	(substance)
Definition status	Primitive
Attributes	738774007 |Is modification of (attribute)| relationship to the unspecified substance 726542003 |Has disposition (attribute)| as appropriate

Naming

Fumes should be expressed in the plural (i.e. fumes as opposed to fume).

Fumes and vapor are different and so should not be used as synonyms on the same concept. https://www.commerce.wa.gov.au/worksafe/gases-vapours-smoke-and-fumes

FSN

Pattern:

• X fumes (substance)

• X micronized (substance)

For example,

• Bauxite fumes (substance)

• Fenofibrate micronized (substance)

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Preferred Term

Pattern:

• X fumes

• X micronized

For example,

• Bauxite fumes

• Fenofibrate micronized

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Synonyms

Pattern: X form to represent EN-GB language variants where appropriate

For example,

• Fenofibrate micronised

Exemplar

View of both stated and inferred form of 278945005 |Iron fumes (substance)|:

Stated view of 414246008 |Fenofibrate micronized (substance)|:

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