Pronunciation of chemical

This AAAS committee is, apparently, the only American group which has done work on the pronunciation of chemical words, except for the more extensive work on pronunciation done by the American Chemical Society s Committee on Nomenclature, Spelling, and Pronunciation (4). Individual British chemists were consulted when the ACS committee did its pronunciation work, but American usage was allowed to have a predominating influence. 

The Pronunciation of Chemical Words. A committee report. 5 cents. 

For rules goveruinz orthography and pronunciation of chemical terms see Appendix A. 

In 1887 a committee was appointed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, to consider the question of securing uniformity in the spelling and pronunciation of chemical terms. The work of this committee extended through the four following years. As a result of widespread correspondence and detailed discussion at the annual meetings of the Chemical Section of the American Association the following rules have been formulated and adopted by the Association. 

Correct use of the language, especially the written language, is an important factor. Law, like chemistry, demands a specialized vocabulary. Chemists, of course, are required to use a system of chemical nomenclature which is complex but logical. It further requires a person to develop precision in using words. In chemistry, for example, there is not much difference in the spelling or often in the pronunciation of words such as... 

The Committee on Nomenclature, Spelling, and Pronunciation of the Ameri-can Chemical Society years ago recommended the spellings, T)uret and pipet. ... 

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. 

This paper attempts to point to some of the early and recent efforts for standardization in chemical nomenclature originating in the United States and gives general information concerning some of the objectives, procedures, and accomplishments. Nomenclature workers sometimes deal with symbols, forms, abbreviations, and pronunciation, and their work sometimes includes trade names. This paper is limited largely to work on the naming of chemical compounds and elements. 

ACS Committee on Nomenclature, Spelling, and Pronunciation. Since the editor of Chemical Abstracts always has been the chairman of the ACS Committee on Nomenclature, Spelling, and Pronunciation, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between nomenclature work done for the committee and for Chemical Abstracts. 

Committee on Nomenclature, Spelling and Pronunciation of the American Chemical Society Chem. Eng. News, 24, 1233 (1916). 

Distinctly chemical compound words retain the accent and pronunciation of each portion. 

The Facts On File Dictionary of Chemistry was first published in 1980 and the third edition was published in 1999. This fourth edition of the dictionary has been extensively revised and extended. The dictionary now contains over 3,000 headwords covering the terminology of modern chemistry. A totally new feature of this edition is the inclusion of over 1,700 pronunciations for terms that are not in everyday use. A number of appendixes have been included at the end of the book containing useful information, including a list of chemical elements and a periodic table. There is also a list of Web sites and a bibliography. A guide to using the dictionary has also been added to this latest version of the book. 

In 1998, ligand-oriented design led to the discovery of phenoxy-imines that were utihzed using group 4 metals initiated by Mitsui Chemicals led by T. Fujita and co-workers under the name FI catalysts which stands for the Japanese pronunciation of the ligand Fenokishi-Imin Haiishi and, at the same time, for Fujita group Invented catalysts [31, 32]. 

The principal use of chemical nomenclature is to give a compound a label that can be spoken, written, and used in printed indices and from which the structure can be perceived by scientists. While trivial nomenclature has the benefit of conciseness, only systematic nomenclature, which to a certain extent gives pronunciation and semantics to a structure, is of use for unambiguously labeling a structure with a name that can safely be communicated worldwide. It is the aim of systematic chemical nomenclature to describe the composition and, insofar as is practicable, the structure of compounds. 

As you listen to chemists talking about chemicals, you will soon realize that there is no strict protocol for pronunciation. Even simple words like ethyl produce a variety of sounds. Many chemists say eethyle , but the Atlantic divide gives us ethel with short e s, and continental European chemists often revert... 

The first of the accessory food factors to be isolated and identified was found to be chemically an amine therefore, in 1912, Funk coined the term vitamine, from the Latin vita for life and amine, for the prominent chemical reactive group. Although subsequent accessory growth factors were not found to be amines, the name has been retained - with the loss of the final -e to avoid chemical confusion. The decision as to whether the word should correctly be pronounced vitamin or veitamin depends in large part on which system of Latin pronunciation one learned - the Oxford English Dictionary permits both. 

In addition, the first page of each entry features a Key Facts section in the margin. Here, the element s chemical symbol, atomic number, atomic mass, family, and pronunciation are shown. A diagram of an atom of the element is also shown at the top of the page. In the diagram, the atom s electrons are arranged in various energy levels outside the nucleus. Inside the nucleus, the number of protons and neutrons is indicated. 

The study of the application of ultrasound to chemical processes began in the 1950s in China [ 1,2] but it did not receive much attention from Chinese chemists for many years. Part of this neglect may have been due to the fact that the term was often misunderstood due to its Chinese pronunciation being Shenghuaxue, which has, unfortunately, the same sound as biochemistry. 

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