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The following rules have been adopted by the International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). Alkanes... 

Today it has become clear that the effect of trace elements in living systems, in food, and in the environment depends on the chemical form in which the element enters the system and the final form in which it is present. The form, or species, clearly governs its biochemical and geochemical behaviour. lUPAC (the International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry) has recently set guidelines for terms related to chemical speciation of trace elements (Templeton et al. 2000). Speciation, or the analytical activity of measuring the chemical species, is a relatively new scientific field. The procedures usually consist of two consecutive steps (i) the separation of the species, and (2) their measurement An evident handicap in speciation analysis is that the concentration of the individual species is far lower than the total elemental concentration so that an enrichment step is indispensable in many cases. Such a proliferation of steps in analytical procedure not only increases the danger of losses due to incomplete recovery, chemical instability of the species and adsorption to laboratory ware, but may also enhance the risk of contamination from reagents and equipment. 

Institut de Recherches de la Siderurgie, France International Organization for Standardization ISO Council Committee on Reference Materials International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry Laboratory of the Government Chemist, UK, formerly NPL National Bureau of Standards, USA, now NIST National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards, USA National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, UK Japanese National Institute for Environmental Studies National Institute of Occup. Health, Oslo, Norway National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA, formerly NBS,... 

Within CEN TC 275, a distinct protocol for the conduct of inter-laboratory method validation trials is not selected or required, but it is recommended to apply ISO 5725 or the ISO/International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry (lUPAC) harmonized protocol. " In the past, results of several national and international interlaboratory trials had been accepted. Nevertheless, the following fundamental aspects of the harmonized protocol for the design of method-performance studies should be fulfilled ... 

SOLUTION and MIXTURE - There is some confusion between these two terms in geological literature. According to the I.U.P. A.C. (International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry), the term mixture must be adopted whenever all components are treated in the same manner , whereas solution is reserved for cases in which it is necessary to distinguish a solute from a solvent. This distinction in terminology will be more evident after the introduction of the concept of standard state. It is nevertheless already evident that we cannot treat an aqueous solution of NaCl as a mixture, because the solute (NaCl) in its stable (crystalline) state has a completely different aggregation state from that of the solvent (H2O) and, because NaCl is a strong electrolyte (see section 8.2), we cannot even imagine pure aqueous NaCl. 

The ideal validated method would be the one that has progressed fully through a collaborative study in accordance with international protocols for the design, conduct, and interpretation of method performance studies. A typical study of a determinative method conducted in accordance with the internationally harmonized International Organization for Standardization (ISO)/International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)/AOAC International (AOAC) protocol would require a minimum of up to five test materials including blind replicates or split-level samples to assess within-laboratory repeatability parameters, and eight participating laboratories (15). Included with the intended use should be recommended performance criteria for accuracy, precision and recovery. 

Over the past 40 years fluorine nuclear magnetic resonance (19F-NMR) spectroscopy has become the most prominent instrumental method for structure elucidation of organofluorine compounds. Consequently the amount of spectral data published has grown almost exponentially Unfortunately NMR data for fluonnated compounds are not as well, or as easily, organized as proton data To facilitate retrieval of fluorine NMR information and comparison of data, acquisition parameters should be clearly defined Guidelines for publication of NMR data have been established by the International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) [7] The following niles for acquisition and reporting of NMR data should be strictly observed... 

Up to now, however, HPLC has remained the method of choice. This is due mainly to the fact that this technique is much easier to automate as compared to TLC. Besides, a wide variety of stationary and mobile phases are available, so the technique is highly flexible. Besides, the investment cost is much lower as compared to P-NMR, whereas quantitation is more straightforward than in MEKC. Hence, the more recent official methods for the analysis of phospholipids, as proposed by the American Oil Chemists Society (AOCS), by the International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), and by the International Lecithin and Phospholipid Society (ILPS), all use HPLC. In this chapter, a review is presented of HPLC procedures that have been described during the past 10 years the older literature was discussed in a previous edition of this handbook (21). 

The main organizations that develop or validate methods for fats and oil analysis include International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry (lUPAC), International Oiganization for Standardization (ISO), Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC), American Oil Chemists Society (AOCS), American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), Association Francaise de Normalization (AFNOR), British Standards Institution (BSI), Deustsches Institute fur Normung (DIN), and the Federation of Oils, Seeds and Fats Association (FOSFA). In addition, there is an increasing trend for the various national standard institutions to develop their own standard methods based on the standard ISO methods these are generally adopted as official methods. 

A database containing solubilities originally published in the International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry (lUPAC)-National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Solubility Data Series is now available at no cost online at httpy/srdata.nist.gov/solubility. 

In principal, the membranes used in the various separation processes can be roughly divided into two groups, namely the porous membranes and dense membranes. However, there are some cases where it is not clear whether the membrane can be classified as porous or dense. According to the definition of the International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry (lUPAC) porous membranes are those, having static transport channels or capillaries (pores) with a mean diameter larger than 2 nm. Porous membranes can simply be treated as very fine sieves, which grade particles on a molecular level of size. Corresponding to the above definition for porous membranes, dense membranes are those with a mean pore diameter less than 2 nm [3]. In dense membranes the pores are treated as nonstatic. 

The blossoming of new materials has been so rapid that the nomenclature of ordered mesoporous materials is in the wild state in which zeolite nomenclature was thirty years ago. A set of rules for writing a standardized crystal chemical formula for both microporous and mesoporous materials has been established by the Physical Chemistry Division of the International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry, through its Commission on Colloid and Surface Chemistry including Catalysis [65]. The impact of this nomenclature on the activity of the scientists dealing with mesoporous materials has still to be verified. 

International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry) rules. Thus, the familiar procyanidin B-2 (5) is named epicatechin-(4/3 —> 8)-epicatechin, the analogous prodelphinidin (6) epigallocatechin-(4/3 —> 8)-epicatechin, and the (25)-propelargonidin (7) f t-afzelechin-(4/3 6)-catechin. 

A classification of pores based on pore sizes was proposed by the International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry (lUPAC). As illustrated in Fig. 1, pores are usually classified into three classes macropores (>50 nm), mesopores (2-50 nm) and micropores (<2 nm) [1], Micropores can be further divided into supermicropores (with a size of 0.7-2 nm) and ultramicropores (<0.7 nm in size), Since nanotechnology attracted the attention of many scientists recently, the pore structure has been required to be controlled closely, a part of which will be explained in Section 5. Wlten scientists wanted to express that they are controlling pores in the nanometer scale, some of them preferred to call the smallest pores nano-sized pores, instead of micro/mesopores. 

Unfortunately, at present, the naming of polymers is not uniform. The International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry (lUPAC) has established some systematic rules for the naming of polymers, but they are not used by everyone. For some polymers, there are common or trade names that are used almost exclusively, instead of the more systematic lUPAC names. The lack of rigor and uniformity in naming polymers may occasionally give rise to confusions in this book, different types of names are used as long as there is no ambiguity in the identification of the polymer. 

L.M. Croll, and H.D.H. Stover. Composite tectocapsules via the self-assembly of functiona-hzed poly(divinylbenzene) microspheres. In 39th lUPAC Congress/86th Conference of the Canadian Society for Chemistry, International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry Ottawa, Canada, 2003. 

Originally, a polymer was described as a molecule consisting of many (from the Greek, noKv) monomeric units (from the Greek, pepoa). Today, however, according to lUPAC (International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry) a polymer is defined as a substance composed of molecules characterized by the multiple repetition of one or more species of atoms or groups of atoms (constitutional units) linked to each other in amounts sufficient to provide a set of properties that do not vary markedly with the addition or removal of one or a few of the constitutional units. ... 

Amazingly, their discovery was based on the detection of only one atom of the new element, which decays after roughly 100 ps by alpha decay to form darmstadtium-273 (element 110). Within one minute, another five alpha decays take place producing fermium-253 (element 100). The finding has been verified in both Japan and Russia. More recently, scientists have reported the synthesis of elements 113 through 118. These results have yet to be confirmed by the International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry, although the results look promising. Names and symbols have not yet been chosen for these new elements. 

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