International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry

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International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry

IUPAC

An organization composed of experts from many countries whose charter is to standardize aspects of the basic science of chemistry, including nomenclature, structural formulae, and so forth.

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The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry will publish the new names in the July issue of Pure and Applied Chemistry.

Meet flerovium and livermorium: group confers official names on two superheavy elements

The review was conducted by a joint working party of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP).

2 new elements added to periodic table

Toward ensuring global food safety, this symposium sponsored by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPA) addressed the toxicological risks posed to consumers from such products as peanuts, olives, and red wine contaminated with naturally-occurring mycotoxins (e.g.

Mycotoxins and phycotoxins; advances in determination, toxicology and exposure management; proceedings

Tox-MIAMExpress uses MGED Ontology concepts that point to established controlled vocabularies for toxicological end points: the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (http://www.iupac.org/ dhtml_home.html) for clinical pathology and the NTP PCT (http://hazel.niehs.nih.

Database development in toxicogenomics: issues and efforts

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (NPAC) and the IFCC issued two reports in 1966 (8) and 1967 (9), now giving a proper term to the coherent unit, namely:

The tortuous road to the adoption of katal for the expression of catalytic activity by the general conference on weights and measures

The situation led the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry to conduct a tightly managed round-robin measurement study organized by NIST to attempt to reduce the uncertainties.

REFINED PROCEDURES IMPROVE REFRIGERATION PROPERTIES RESEARCH

Three promising young chemists have received funding to travel to international conferences as part of the Canadian National Committee of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (CNC-IUPAC) travel awards program:

CNC-IUPAC travel awards help young researchers

Following approval by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, atomic weights are based on the carbon-12 nucleus equals 12 scale.

Chemistry by committee

(2.) International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, International Federation of Clinical Chemistry.

Influence quantities and uncertainty of measurement

We lead off our news section with a report on how the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry is incorporating into the table new information about the molecular weights of isotopes of some elements.

From the editor

Element 112, a "superheavy" element with an atomic mass of 278, is officially named copernicium, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced February 19.

Atomic heavyweight gets a name: element 112 christened 'copernicium' after astronomer