Symbols and signs

The symbol and sign conventions used for substituent effects in this chapter are those most frequently used by writers on correlation analysis in organic chemistry. / or R effects which withdraw electrons from the ring are regarded as positive. See Ref. 48, pp. 229-230 for a more detailed consideration of symbol and sign conventions. 

With respect to symbols and signs, see also Von Lippmann op. dt., p. 347 ff-, where many of these signs with interesting notices are brought together. 

We have already made a number of choices of terminology, symbols, and sign conventions, which are not universally followed in NMR literature. For a qualitative discussion of a particular aspect of NMR, choice of symbols and sign conventions may be unimportant, but in other areas it is essential that a consistent system be used. Unfortunately, there are different self-consistent systems that are employed in various books, so superficial comparison of mathematical expressions may lead to apparent contradictions. Here we state several of our choices explicitly and point out areas of divergence. 

In the following, similarities and differences in the fundamental description of chemical and electrochemical reactions are considered with a definition of symbols and signs [51,52]. 

British Standards BS 5499 Graphical Symbols and Signs is concerned witb a system for giving safety information which does not, in general, require the use of words and covers safety signs, including fire safety signs. 

The second and third terms express the imbalance of the thermal resistances and heat capacities outside the calorimeters. The fourth term, the effect of different heating rates between reference and sample calorimeter. This last term is of importance when a transition occurs in the sample and does not follow the assumptions made for Figs. 4.71 and 4.72 [3]. (Note the differences to [2] from changed symbols and signs, 4> = q, at = - AT, ATb = AT , q = dT /dt, as well as from expanded subscripts). 

I. Aliphatic chromophores are denoted by atomic symbol and sign of unsaturated bonds. 

A note on good practice Note once again how the complicated collection of units is treated arriving at the correct units for the answer is a sign that you have set up the equation correctly. As usual, it is good practice to go as far as possible symbolically and then to insert numerical values at the last possible stage. 

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Figure 4 depicts the different forms of chemisorption for a Na atom by means of the symbolic valence signs. In weak bonding the valence electron of the Na atom remains unpaired (see Fig. 2a), and in this sense the free valence of the Na atom may be considered unsaturated. This form of bond thus represents the radical form of chemisorption, which is symbolically depicted in Fig. 4a. Upon transition to strong n- or p-bonding a free electron or, respectively, a free hole of the lattice becomes involved in the bond the electron becomes localized and coupled to the valence electron of the Na atom (see Fig. 2b) or, respectively, the free hole recombines with the valence electron of the Na atom (see Fig. 2c).

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Finally, the symbols + and written as superscripts to the A symbol, refer to two types of sigma states, 2+ and 2 . If the wavefunction is unaltered by reflection through a plane passing through the two nuclei, the state is positive (+) if it changes sign, it is negative ( —). 

Upper and lower bounds on the elastic constants of transversely isotropic unidirectional composites involve only the elastic constants of the two phases and the fiber volume fraction, Vf. The following symbols and conventions are used in expressions for mechanical properties Superscript plus and minus signs denote upper and lower bounds, and subscripts / and m indicate fiber and matrix properties, as previously. Upper and lower bounds on the composite axial tensile modulus, Ea, are given by the following expressions ... 

The different types of magnetism described so far are summarized in terms of the sign and magnitude of their susceptibilities in Table 6.17. A summary of the terms, symbols, and units used in magnetism are provided in Table 6.18, in a manner analogous to the electrical terms in Table 6.5. 

The superscripted numbers and signs in the atoms symbols indicate the ion s overall chcirge. Cations have superscripts with -i- signs, and anions have superscripts with - signs. When the element sodium, Na, loses an electron, it loses one negative charge and is left with one overall positive charge because it now has one more proton than electron. So Na becomes Na+. 

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