We wish to thank the following colleagues, who have contributed significantly to this edition. Iupac color books the iupac color books are the worlds authoritative resource for chemical nomenclature, terminology, and symbols. On these pages you will find a new browsable, version of this publication. Offers to assist in the translation and dissemination in other languages should be made in the first instance either to iupac or to the chairman of the commission. Search through millions of guided stepbystep solutions or ask for help from our community of subject experts 247. At hach, our products are meant to make water analysis better, faster, and more informative with our knowledgeable experts and easy to use products. Welcome to the new interactive version of iupac compendium of chemical terminology, informally known as the gold book.
Water quality testing and analytical instruments hach. This is a pdf rendering of the iupac gold book term calcination. As iupac approaches its 100th anniversary, it is important to reevaluate the modes in which it operates to sustainably support the standards that are vital to. Apologies but the iupac gold book is getting a facelift and thus the site is temporarily down. In this article, we present a discussion of the iupac gold book as an exemplar of an important asset that needs to be digitally represented for preservation, maintenance, dissemination, programmatic access, and semantic application. We promise to get it back up again as soon as we can. This is an immensely important activity for iupac when we consider the number of volunteerhours invested over. This result falls beyond the top 1m of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. The content was based on the online pdf version of the second edition of the iupac gold book. About the iupac compendium of chemical terminology gold book. Terminology definitions published by iupac are drafted by international committees of experts in the appropriate chemistry subdisciplines, and ratified by iupac s interdivisional committee on terminology, nomenclature and symbols ictns. The compendium is popularly referred to as the gold book, in recognition of the contribution of the late victor gold, who initiated work on the first edition. An xml version of the gold book was created as part of iupac project standard xml data dictionaries for chemistry 5, by miloslav nic, jiri jirat, and bedrich kosata.