NOMENCLATURE IN THE MAKING

The users of an abstract journal have a right to expect good nomenclature in the make-up of abstracts and indexes. It is the policy of Chemical Abstracts to accept and use the nomenclature as recommended by the Nomenclature, Spelling, and Pronunciation Committee of the American Chemical Society and as approved by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. A special effort is made to use good, consistent, systematic nomenclature in the subject indexing of Chemical AbstraHs with an adequate supply of cross references. These subject indexes are sometimes used as a source of nomenclature information in addition to their use as a key. 

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