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The trend in education today is to make available to students options which will reduce the total elapsed time (but usually not the number of courses) required for a specific degree. State universities in Florida usually limit their science programs to 180 quarter hours. 

Throughout the book numerous references are made to the available range of general purpose NMR spectroscopy texts. The reader should turn to these for a full introduction to solution and solid-state techniques and their application to chemical science. Alternatively, texts are available which treat NMR as one of the range of spectroscopies of relevance to polymer characterisation. The reader will also be made aware of some excellent works on specific aspects of polymer NMR, including microstructural determination and high-resolution solid-state methods. In a number of cases these would form a... 

As opposed to the lanthanide elements, all of which are found in nature except for Pm, less than half of the actinides are naturally occurring. The first six actinides, Ac through Pu, have been found in nature, although Np and Pu exist in only minute amounts as a result of natural neutron reactions in some uranium ores. Practicably, only Th and U are extracted from natural sources (small amounts of Pa have also been obtained). The remaining nine elements. Am through Lr, are available only as man-made materials. For these latter elements, there are many different isotopes that can be prepared by various synthetic, nuclear reactions. A discussion of all of these isotopes is beyond the scope of this chapter and the reader is referred to other sources (Seaborg and Loveland 1990, Ahmad and Fields 1986). However, it is pertinent in a discussion of actinide oxides to mention certain aspects of sources and specific isotopes of the actinides as they pertain to the solid-state science of the oxides. 

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