Abbreviations Index

Section 2 combines the former separate section on Mathematics with the material involving General Information and Conversion Tables. The fundamental physical constants reflect values recommended in 1986. Physical and chemical symbols and definitions have undergone extensive revision and expansion. Presented in 14 categories, the entries follow recommendations published in 1988 by the lUPAC. The table of abbreviations and standard letter symbols provides, in a sense, an alphabetical index to the foregoing tables. The table of conversion factors has been modified in view of recent data and inclusion of SI units cross-entries for archaic or unusual entries have been curtailed. 

Titles of periodicals are defined as in the Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index (CASSI), except that full stops have been omitted after each abbreviated word. Abbreviations of words in the texts of Chapters 4, 5 and 6 are those in common use and are self evident, e.g. distn, filtd, cone and vac are used for distillation, filtered, concentrated and vacuum. 

Abbreviations of titles of periodicals are defined as in the Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index (CASSI). Other abbreviations are self evident (see Chapter 1, p. 30). 

The element symbols within each formula are arranged according to a modified Hill system in which the order is metal(s), C, H and then any remaining symbols arranged alphabetically. Compounds containing two (or more) different metals appear twice (or more), being listed under each metal. Common ligand abbreviations which appear in the text have also been used in the index. These include acac (acetylacetone), bipy (2,2 -bipyridyl), diars [o-phenylenebis(dimethyl-arsine)], dien (diethylenetriamine), etc. 

Information was gleaned from each original publication except where an additional reference to Chemical Abstracts is included. Each citation of a Russian journal or Angewandte Chemie refers to the original Russian or German version, not to any subsequent English translation. Abbreviations for journal titles are those recommended in the Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index (1994) and quarterly supplements. 

Preceding the indexes there is a list of those abbreviations that are frequently used in the text of the volume at hand or in companion volumes. This list varies somewhat in length from volume to volume that is, it becomes more comprehensive as new volumes are published. 

Further steps toward universality are taken by the replacement of element and compound names wherever possible by symbols and formulas, and by adding to data in older units their recalculated SI equivalents. The usefulness of the reference sections has been increased by giving journal-title abbreviations according to the Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index, by listing in each reference all of its authors and by accompanying references to patents and journals that may be difficult to access by their Chemical... 

The entries of this index were derived directly by computer program from the lists of references. The accuracy of the references was the sole responsibility of the authors. No editorial check, except for format and journal-title abbreviation, was applied. Consequently, errors occurring in authors names in the references will recur in this index. 

Figure 1.1. Outline index map of the Japanese subduction zones. Thick lines with teeth are converging plate boundaries. Arrows indicate relative plate motions. Abbreviations su, Suruga trough sa, Sagami trough sf, South Fossa Magna triple junction och, Off Central Honshu triple junction ISTL, Itolgawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line KSM, Kashima VLBl station (Uyeda, 1991).

For each unknown element listed in Data Table 1, copy its chemical and physical properties onto separate index cards. Be sure to record the letter of the unknown element on each index card. The following abbreviations are used in Data Table 1 IP = ionization potential, BP = boiling point,... 

Abbreviation for plasticity retention index. Printers Blanket... 

The pigments are commonly referred to not only by their Colour Index name but also by an added abbreviation for the respective heteropoly acid. For instance ... 

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