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FUN DAM ENT A LS VOL. 5, NO. 4, NOVEMBER 1966
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EX PER1M ENTAL WORK IN CHEMICAL ENGI NEERING RESEARCH
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Among the efforts which comprise chemical engineering research, none is more significant than experimentation itself. Skill in the design and execution of laboratory work is often the key to success in investigations such as those reported in these pages. Sophisticated mathematical analysis or theoretical reasoning is very striking, but in a field having such a strong foundation in experimental observation and with such a tradition in laboratory work inherited from chemistry, many of the most important and lasting contributions to our progress occur when data are collected with care, with invention of new procedures, and with skillful interpretation of laboratory observations. Thinking that many examples of excellent experimentation go unnoticed among those engaged in engineering research and that better exchange of information about experimentation itself might improve the quality of research in our laboratories, we initiate this month a new section called "Experimental Technique." T h e section begins with two articles. It is hoped that other articles will follow, devoted to descriptions of novel apparatus, instruments, procedures, or methods of laboratory observation and measurement designed for laboratory research. The short articles included in this new section may include experimental results or theoretical interpretation, but only to support the value or the accuracy of the experimental method itself. Often they will give greater details of construction or of operation than is customary for regular research articles and often the new instruments described will be the forerunners of research papers. Descriptions of commercial instruments are not suitable, and discussions of well known procedures will be included only if they make substantial contributions to new, inventive uses of the older methods. We believe that quality of experimentation in our laboratories should be improved, that students receiving research training in our graduate schools need to see examples of skillful experimental work, and that there are some among us whose talents for good laboratory work deserve better recognition. \Ye hope that Fundamentals Quarterly can do its part to work for progress in these directions. We solicit suitable manuscripts for review and possible publication.
