Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical

Symbols separated by commas represent equivalent recommendations. Symbols for physical and chemical quantities should be printed in italic type. Subscripts and superscripts which are themselves symbols for physical quantities should be italicized all others should be in Roman type. Vectors and matrices should be printed in boldface italic type, e.g., B, b. Symbols for units should be printed in Roman type and should remain unaltered in the plural, and should not be followed by a full stop except at the end of a sentence. References International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry, Blackwell, Oxford, 1988 Manual of Symbols and Terminology for Physicochemical Quantities and Units, Pure Applied Chem. 31 577-638 (1972), 37 499-516 (1974), 46 71-90 (1976), 51 1-41, 1213-1218 (1979) 53 753-771 (1981), 54 1239-1250 (1982), 55 931-941 (1983) lUPAP-SUN, Symbols, Units and Nomenclature in Physics, PV ica 93A 1-60 (1978). 

I. Mills, ed.. Quantities, Units, and Symbols in Physical Chemisty, BlackweU Scientific Publishing, London, 1988. 

IUPAC (1987b) Abbreviated List of Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry. Homann, K. H. (ed.). Blackwell, Oxford [1.2]. 

The following tables summarize the units used in this book. For more extensive tabulations, the reader is referred to the Green Book , et al. (eds), Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry ,... 

According to lUPAC, although the SI unit of amount of substance is the mole, the physical quantity amount of substance should no longer be called number of moles", just as the physical quantity mass should not be called number of kilograms ("Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry", lUPAC, p. 4, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 1988). 

I. Mills, T. Cvitas, K. Homann, N. Kallay and K. Kuchitsu, Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry, 2nd edn, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 1993. 

Quantities, units and symbols in physical chemistry (1995) IUPAC, Black-well, Oxford... 

I. The IUPAC nomenclature used in this chapter is described by K. J. Laidler, ( hcmical Kinetics, Harper Row, New York, 1987, Chap. 1. See also I. Mills, T. ( viias, K. Homann, N. Kallay, and K. Kuchitsu, Quantities, Units, and Symbols in Physical Chemistry, Blackwell, Oxford, 1988. For an introduction to the concepts of lirmical species, including outer-sphere and inner-sphere complexes, see, for example,... 

As far as possible without straying too far from common usage, the guidelines of IUPAC have been followed, described in Quantities, units and symbols in physical chemistry (Blackwell, Oxford, 1988). Other, more detailed information has been taken from the following sources in the IUPAC journal, Pure and Applied Chemistry ... 

Mills J, Cvitas T, Kallay N and Homann K, "Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry", Blackwell Sd Publishers, Oxford, 1988. 

Refs. [i] Mills I, Cvitas T, Homann K, Kallay N, Kuchitsu K (eds) (1993) IUPAC quantities, units and symbols in physical chemistry. Blackwell Scientific Publ, Oxford, p 55 [ii] Arrhenius S (1889) Zphys Chem 4 226 [iii] Pilling Ml, SeakinsPW (1995) Reaction kinetics. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 19-21 [iv] Atkins PW (1993) Physical chemistry. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 877-879, 889... 

Refs. [i] Parsons R (1974) Pure Appl Chem 37 503 [ii] IUPAC quantities, units and symbols in physical chemistry (1993) Mills I, Cvitas T, HomannK, KallayN, Kuchitsu K (eds) Blackwell Scientific Publications,... 

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