ICTAC Nomenclature Committee

Hemmingner, W. Recommendations of the ICTAC Nomenclature Committee. ICTAC News 1998, December, 106-122. 

The nomenclature of thermal analysis continues to be a controversial and incompletely resolved topic. The system proposed by the ICTAC Nomenclature Committee chaired by W. Hemminger and described in detail by Hemminger and Sarge in Volume 1 [Vol 1, p 1-31] has since been reconsidered by a further Committee and die latest recommendations, which have been approved by the Council of ICTAC and by ASTM, are presented by Rouquerol et al. in Chapter 2 of this Volume. The current Committee has followed the advice of the late Robert Mackenzie in that ... 

The present official nomenclature for Thermal Analysis is thus contained in the Report of the ICTAC Nomenclature Committee, which is reproduced (with the permission of ICTAC) in Section 2. In Section 3 a number of extra comments are provided in order to justify, explain or complement the material in Section 2. 

Detailed table, providing a more complete survey of thermoanalytical methods comprehended more universally as thermophysical measurements, was published in the appendix of my previous book [3]. Though conceptually at little variance from the classification published by the Nomenclature Committee of ICTAC [15,594,674] it upholds its thermoanalytical philosophy. Linguistic and methodological aspects of the ICTAC accepted nomenclature, and the associated classifications, were the long-lasting subject of ICTAC activity, which is accessible elsewhere, being also the subject of internal analysis for the qualified formulation of the Czech-Slovak nomenclature [675].. 

The recommended nomenclature has been put forward by the International Nomenclature Committee of the International Confederation for Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (ICTAC). These recommendations are widely circulated in publications of the confederation and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (lUPAC). The most widely publicized report is the booklet For Better Thermal Analysis, which is continually updated as required. 

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