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BA British Association (for the Advancement of Science), now BSA (British Science Association)... 

Proceedingsof the Annual International AlChE Meeting, Washington, DC, November 27-December 2, 1988 edited by M.L. Occelli and R.G. Anthony Volume 51 NewSolid Acids and Bases. Their Catalytic Properties by K. Tanabe, M. Misono, Y. Ono and H. Hattori Volume 52 Recent Advances in Zeolite Science. Proceedings of the 1989 Meeting of the British Zeolite Association, Cambridge, April 17-19,1989 edited by J. Klinowsky and P.J. Barrie... 

Ayliffe G.A.J., Coates D. Hofifinan P.N. (1993) Chemical Disinfection in Hospitals. London PHLS. British Medical Association (1989) Code of Practice for Sterilization of Instruments and Control of Cross Infection. London BMA (Board of Science and Education). 

Recant Advances In Zeolha Science. Proceedings of the 1989 Meeting of the British Zeolite Association, Cambridge, 17-19 April, 1989 edited by J. KHnowskI and P. J. Barrie... 

Fig. 4.2 Reflected light micrograph of a polished and etched section of a Portland cement clinker, showing crystals of alite (dark, angular) and belite (less dark, rounded) embedded in a matrix of interstitial material, itself composed mainly of dendritic ferrite (light) and aluminate (dark). Courtesy Materials Science Department, British Cement Association.

C. D. Williams ed., R.M. Barrer 1910-1996, Founding Father of Zeolite Science , British Zeolite Association, University of Wolverhampton, 1999. 

R. Worcester, British Science and the Chemical Industry, Chemical Industries Association, London, UK, November 1999. 

Sauer J (1989) In Klinowski J, Barrie PJ (eds) Recent advances in zeolite science, Proc Meeting British Zeolite Association, Cambridge, UK, April 17-19, 1989, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1989, p 73 Stud Surf Sci Catal 52 73 (and references therein)... 

For much of the nineteenth century, Britain was the largest and most dynamic industrial economy in the world. The size of the British economy and of the imperial British state created many employment opportunities for chemists. It is thus not perhaps surprising that Britain was one of the first countries to develop both a professional chemical community and chemical societies. Moreover, self-governing societies, be they learned, campaigning, professional or interest-based, played a prominent role within British, and particularly middle-class, society. By the First World War, British chemists operated in a dense institutional network in 1912, Official Chemical Appointments (OCA), the directory of chemical posts published by the British professional association of chemists, the Institute of Chemistry, listed 24 Societies and Institutions directly interested in the advancement of chemical science and technology . This complex social and professional world means that it makes little sense to discuss the demarcation of the British chemical community in terms of a single... 

Many articles have appeared on this issue, including S.J. Brush,The Reception of Mendeleev s Periodic Law in America and Britain, Isis, 87, 595-628,1996 R. Campbell,T. Vinci, Novel Confirmation, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 34, 315—341, 1983 P. Maher Prediction, Accommodation and the Logic of Discovery, in A. Fine,J. Leplin (eds.), PSA 1988, vol. 1, Philosophy of Science Association, East Lansing, MI, 1988, 273—285 J. Worrall Fresnel, Poisson and the White Spot The Role of Successful Prediction in the Acceptance of Scientific Theories, in D. Gooding, T. Pinch, S. Schaffer (eds.) The Uses of Experiment, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989, pp. 135—157 E.R. Scerri, J. Worrall, Prediction and the Periodic Table, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 32, 407-452,2001. 

British Medical Association, The Medical Implications of Chemical and Biological Warfare A Report of the Board of Science and Education, London, March 1987. 

S. J. Brush, Prediction and Theory Evaluation, Science, 246 (1989), 1124-9. M. R. Gardner, Predicting Novel Facts, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 33 (1982), 1-15. P. Lipton, Prediction and Prejudice , International Studies in Philosophy of Science, 4 (1990), 51-65. P. Maher, Prediction, Accommodation and the Logic of Discovery , Philosophy of Science Association, 1 (1988), 273-85. 

In Table 1, drawn up by the author, of abbreviations in common use those in bold type are in the main schedule of BS 3502. In this list the names given for the materials aie the commonly used scientific names. This situation is further complicated by the adoption of a nomenclature by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry for systematic names and a yet further nomenclature by the Association for Science Education which is widely used in British schools but not in industry. Some examples of these are given in Table 2. Because many rubbery materials have been referred to in this book. Tables 3 and 4 list abbreviations for these materials. 

The Commission on Macromolecular Nomenclature of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has published a nomenclature for single-strand organic polymers Pure and Applied Chemistry, 48, 375 (1976)). In addition the Association for Science Education in the UK has made recommendations based on a more general lUPAC terminology, and these have been widely used in British schools. Some examples of this nomenclature compared with normal usage are given in Table 2. 

Having met Joule for the first time at the 1847 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Oxford, Thomson initially accepted that Joule s experiments had shown that work converted into heat. Committed to Carnot s theory of the production of work from a fall of heat, however, he could not accept the converse proposition that work had been converted into heat could simply be recovered as useful work. Therefore, he could not agree to Joule s claim for mutual convertibility. By 1848 he had appropriated from the lectures of the late Thomas Young (reprinted in the mid-1840s) the term energy as a synonym for vis viva (the term in use at the time, traditionally measured as mtc) and its equivalent terms such as work, but as yet the term appeared only in a footnote. 

Through the British Association, Thomson and his associates offered a powerful rival reform program to that of metropolitan scientific naturalists (including T. H. Huxley and John Tyndall) who promoted a professionalized science, free from the perceived shackles of Christianity and grounded on... 

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