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Richard A. Wmschel, B.S. Director, Research Services, CONSOL Energy Inc. Member, American Chemical Society, Technical Committee of the Coal Utilization Research Council (Solid Fuels)... 

As a family of resins originally developed in the early twentieth century, the nature and potential of phenoHc resins have been explored thoroughly to produce an extensive body of technical Hterature (1 8). A symposium sponsored by the American Chemical Society commemorated 75 years of phenoHc resin chemistry in 1983 (9), and in 1987 the PhenoHc Mol ding Division of the Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI) sponsored a conference on phenoHcs in the twenty-first century (1). 

Shanmugharaj, A.M. and Ryu, S.H. Fall Technical Meeting—American Chemical Society, Rubber Division, 168th Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, Nov. 1-3, 2005. 

Amp K. Chandra, Tyre Technology—Recent Advances and Future Trends, (Paper no. 40) presented at the Fall 170th Technical Meeting of the Rubber Division, American Chemical Society, Cincinnati, OH, 10-12 October, 2006. 

Chemical Abstracts. Chemical Abstracts (CA) [23] is a collection of chemical information, with nearly 16 million abstracts of journal articles, patents, and other documents. In addition, the CAOLD database contains over 3 million abstracts from 1907-1966. Sources for CA include more than 8000 journals, patents, technical reports, books, conference proceedings, and dissertations from around the world. CA patent database covers 29 national patent offices and two international bodies. About 16% of the CA database, approximately 2.5 million records, are from the patent literature. Chemical Abstracts is commercially available from the American Chemical Society in several formats. 

Robert Hofstader, formerly of the American Chemical Society Marc Connelly, formerly of the American Chemical Society Naresh Handagama, Pellissippi State Technical College... 

American Chemical Society so as to coordinate technical and economic debates about a field which had amply demonstrated its crucial importance in the conflict then about to end (18). 

Table 1.7 shows the total employment of all workers, technical and nontechnical, by the chemical industry as well as by all manufacturing. Note that about 18.4 million workers are in all manufacturing, about 1.0 million in Chemicals and Allied Products. Employment in the chemical industry is relatively constant. This is to be contrasted to other major industries— construction and automobiles, for example— where employment can be down during a recession. Overall the chemical industry is in good shape. It is believed that about 160,000 chemists and 120,000 chemical engineers are employed in the U.S. The American Chemical Society alone has over 160,000 members currently. Unemployment of chemists is low, and in March 2001 it was 1.5%. It is always much lower than the nationwide unemployment. 

The authors are greatly indebted to the U.S. Army Research Office (Durham), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, and to the National Institute of Health for generous support. We also wish to thank Drs. H. T. Thomas, T. R. Evans, F. C. James, and A. Weissberger, and A. F. Toth and especially L. D. Weis for advice and technical assistance in support of this manuscript. We are also most grateful to David F. Eaton for permission to cite his unpublished results. 

Vaia R, Mirau P, Alexander M, Koemer H, Hsiao BS, Sics I (2005) 167th Spring Technical Meeting - American Chemical Society, Rubber Division, San Antonio, TX, United States, 16-18 May 2005, 63/1-63/8... 

This program plan will be published within the next few months and will be circulated for public review and comment. We hope that both the American Chemical Society and its individual members will provide us feedback on this plan. Hopefully, in this way a greater understanding of the technical components of the program will be achieved and we will be able to demonstrate that we are addressing the concerns that have been raised in a responsible manner. 

We are grateful to the National Science Foundation and the Petroleum Research Fund (administered by the American Chemical Society) for financial support through grants CHE-77-00360 and 7800-AC3,6 respectively. We also thank Joseph Henriques for technical assistance in operating the neutron diffractometers, and the W. C. Hamilton Memorial Fund for providing a scholarship to R.G.T. Research at Brookhaven National Laboratory was performed under contract with the Department of Energy and supported by its Division of Basic Energy Sciences. 

This volume comprises the papers presented at a symposium held at Dallas, Tex., in April 1956, which was sponsored by the Division of Chemical Literature and the Division of Petroleum Chemistry of the American Chemical Society. We are especially grateful for the help provided by D. P. Barnard, research coordinator, Standard Oil Co. (Indiana), and Cecil E. Boord, professor emeritus of Ohio State University, who reviewed the program during its formative stages, presided over the sessions, and enriched the discussions. Their assistance was particularly valuable because we accepted the invitation to arrange the symposium on the basis of our experience in organizing technical information rather than because of any special competence in the field of combustion. 

He was a member of the American Chemical Society, and of its Carbohydrate Division (Chairman, 1972-1973) and its Cellulose, Paper, and Textile Division (Chairman, 1971-1972). He was also a member of The Chemical Society (London), The Society of the Sigma Xi, the Combustion Institute, the Torrey Botanical Club, the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry, and the Montana Academy of Sciences. He served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis and the Journal of Wood Chemistry and Technology. He chaired a number of symposia and conferences, including the July, 1983, Gordon Conference on Analytical Pyrolysis. Through election by the University of Montana faculty, he served on the Faculty Senate and on the Executive Committee of the Senate. In 1980, he was awarded the University of Montana s first Distinguished Research Award. 

Research articles of interest to biochemists may appear in many types of research journals. Research libraries do not have the funds necessary to subscribe to every journal, nor do scientists have the time to survey every current journal copy for articles of interest. Two publications that help scientists to keep up with published articles are Chemical Titles (published every 2 weeks by the American Chemical Society) and the weekly Current Contents available in hard copy and computer disks (published by the Institute of Science Information). The Life Science edition of Current Contents is the most useful for biochemists. The computer revolution has reached into the chemical and biochemical literature, and most college and university libraries now subscribe to computer bibliographic search services. One such service is STN International, the scientific and technical information network. This on-line system allows direct access to some of the world s largest scientific databases. The STN databases of most value to life scientists include BIOSIS Pre-views/RN (produced by Bio Sciences Information Service covers original research reports, reviews, and U.S. patents in biology and biomedicine), CA (produced by Chemical Abstracts service covers research reports in all areas of chemistry), MEDLINE, and MEDLARS (produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and Index Medicus, respectively cover all areas of biomedicine). These networks provide on-line service and their databases can be accessed from personal computers in the office, laboratory, or library. Some... 

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