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B. Scarlet, M. Rippon, and P. J. Lloyd, Proceedings of the Conference on Particle Si Mnalysis, The Society for Analytical Chemistry, London, 1967, p. 242. 

The following procedure has been recommended by the Analytical Methods Committee of the Society for Analytical Chemistry for the determination of small amounts of arsenic in organic matter.20 Organic matter is destroyed by wet oxidation, and the arsenic, after extraction with diethylammonium diethyldithiocarbamate in chloroform, is converted into the arsenomolybdate complex the latter is reduced by means of hydrazinium sulphate to a molybdenum blue complex and determined spectrophotometrically at 840 nm and referred to a calibration graph in the usual manner. 

Subcommittee (of the Analytical Methods Committee) of the Society for Analytical Chemistry (London) (1965) Metallic Impurities in Organic Matter. Report by Analyst, 90, 515. 

The development of standard methods of analysis has been a prime objective of the Analytical Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry and its precursors, the Society of Public Analysts and the Society for Analytical Chemistry, since the earliest of days and the results of this work have been recorded in the pages of The Analyst since its inception in 1876. An Analytical Investigation Scheme was proposed by A. Chaston Chapman in 1902. This later evolved into the Standing Committee on Uniformity of Analytical Methods and was charged with developing standard chemicals and securing comparative analyses of these standard materials. 

In 1974 the Society for Analytical Chemistry celebrated the centenary of its foundation it would soon become part of the newly formed Royal Society of Chemistry, continuing within that Society as its Analytical Division. In 1999 a history of the first 25 years of the new Division was published. The book provides an important source for those interested in the recent history of analytical chemistry in the United Kingdom.24 A collection of articles was published on the occasion of the centenary of the establishment in the United States of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists in 1984. The Association was originally devoted to agricultural chemistry, and was named accordingly.25... 

Selected references. These procedures were adapted essentially from AO AC Official Methods of Analysis [7s], The Society for Analytical Chemistry, Official, Standardised and Recommended Methods of Analysis [8g], UK Ministry of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 27 [21], Subcommittee on Procedures of the Chemistry Task Force of the (US) National Shellfish Sanitation Program [24] and Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme, Codex Alimentarius Commission [125b]. Other pertinent references are 30i, 37a, 38d, 39d and 128b. 

Selected references to Section III these procedures were adapted from The Society for Analytical Chemistry, Official, Standardised and Recommended Methods of Analysis [8h] and Gorsuch [139]. 

Selected references The procedures were adapted essentially from AO AC Official Methods of Analysis [7x], the Society for Analytical Chemistry, Official, Standardized and Recommended Methods of Analysis [8d], American Oil Chemists Society [23d], Allen [37m] and Simmons and Loneragan [229] the latter was adapted by permission from Anal. Chem., 47 (1975) 566—568, copyright by the American Chemical Society. 

As noted in her obituary by G. R. Davies,51(a) Corner had an unfortunate accident early in life and, Burdened with a severe disability, she had, in addition, more than the usual share of suffering and trouble. In the 1930s, she became a founder member of the Microchemical Club (to be later joined by Isabel Hadfield see Chap. 2). At the time of her death on 4 November 1962, she was Vice-Chairman of the Microchemistry Group of the Society for Analytical Chemistry. 

Anon. (1955). Proceedings of the Society for Analytical Chemistry, Annual General Meeting. The Analyst 80 325. 

T he theory, technique, and applications of atomic absorption spectros-copy (AAS) are well known to chemists and are described extensively in the literature, which is estimated at nearly 1,000 papers a year. Excellent sources of information are the Annual Review issues (April) of Analytical Chemistry and the Annual Reports on Analytical Atomic Absorption from the Society for Analytical Chemistry, London. Several pertinent references are listed by Hughes et al. (1). Some books found generally useful are listed in the bibliography (2, 3,4). 

The Joint Committee" of the Pharmaceutical Society and the Society for Analytical Chemistry recommended a gas chromatographic method for the determination of ephedrine in tablets, elixir and nasal drops, using phenmetrazine as an internal standard. Ephedrine was extracted... 

In 1980, the Chemical Society, the Institute of Chemistry and two other societies which had been formed in the meantime (the Faraday Society (for physical chemistry) and the Society for Analytical Chemistry (formerly the Society of Public Analysts)), merged to form the Royal Society of Chemistry. Early in the twentieth century the American Chemical Society organised itself into divisions representing various specialisms and interests, and was thereby more successful in preventing the proliferation of societies which occurred in Britain. 

H. H. Hausner, Characterization of the Powder Particle Shape, in Proceeding of the Symposium on Particle Size Analysis, Loughborough, England published by the Society for Analytical Chemistry, London, England, (1967) 20-77. 

Batel and Wilhelm, Einfuhrung die Korngrossenmess-technik (The Society for Analytical Chemistry,... 

The method for the determination of rotenone adopted as official by the A,0,A.C. was based on the work of Jones and Graham and that included in the B.Vet.C. 1953 is a modification of the A.O.A.C, method proposed by Coomber, Martin and Harper. These methods were in general use for some time, but widely divergent results were obtained in different laboratories. A joint committee of the Pharmaceutical Society and the Society for Analytical Chemistry reviewed available methods and in particular considered the work of Martin which had been overlooked for many years. Martin showed that the phenolic and emulsifying constituents of derris extract could be removed by washing with alkali. When this was done the subsequent crystallisation of rotenone from carbon tetrachloride was found to be much more satisfactory. The panel also examined an alternative... 

The author wishes to thank numerous journals, particularly The Analyst and The Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology for permission to publish information. The Society for Analytical Chemistry has also been generous in permitting access to its Analytical Methods Committee reports when in the press. 

Analytical Abstracts (Heffer, 1954-) is published for the Society for Analytical Chemistry as a replacement for section C of British Abstracts. 

The Chemical Council is a body which was established in 1935 by the Chemical Society, the Royal Institute of Chemistry and the Society of Chemical Industry, with representatives from the Association of British Chemical Manufacturers, the Faraday Society, the Society for Analytical Chemistry and the Biochemical Society. It acts as trustees for various funds contributed by industry which are used for subsidies to the constituent societies to meet deficits in the costs of their publications, to assist in the publication of abstracts, and to support the maintenance of the library of the Chemical Society. 

Abstracts of analytical chemistry can be found in the general abstracting journals already described and in Analytical Abstracts (Fig. 27) published for the Society for Analytical Chemistry since 1954 as an independent publication, and previously issued as section C of British Abstracts and in the Analyst. This is a monthly publication with world coverage having annual author and subject indexes. Wherever possible authors addresses are included with indication of the language of the original article where this is not obvious. These excellent informative abstracts which are also available printed on one side only of the paper so as to be suitable for inclusion into reference systems are... 

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