ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY WALTER J. MURPHY, Editorial Director
Your Journal in 1955
continuous manufacturing processes, so characteristic of the chemical process industries, would not be possible if these tremendous strides in instrumentat,ion had not ITH this issiie n-e conclude still another milestone been made. (the twenty-seventh) in the history of ASALYTICAL CHEMISTRY. The year 1955 has been an eventful one, with many new services and innovations added-all for the purpose of serving you, the reader, more effectively. More than 2100 pages have been required this year to A N A L Y S T S will have no dearth of meetings in 1956 publish the accepted papers dealing with many varied where they can present papers. Indeed, one adfacets of the broad field of analysis, and to provide dition to the usual list mas commented on briefly several additional services of practical value to the subscriber. months ago-the XVth International Congress of Pure This figure is in marked contrast with 238-the total and Applied Chemistry, to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, number contained in Volume I (1929). Surely the field September 9 to 16. This congress mill be devoted eshas grown tremendously. elusively t o the field of analytical chemistry. There is no point in enumerating the many addiPapers by U. S. authors should be submitted by Detional services that have been introduced in the journal cember 31, 1955, to H. A. Laitinen, Department of down through the years. While much has been acChemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill., who is complished, we hope that we never become comchairman of the National Research Council Committee placent. There are opportunities for further improveto Receive and Review Papers. Each manuscript ment every year. should be accompanied by a 200- to 300-word abstract. I n glancing a t Volume I we were very much interested We hope the U. S. will be well represented a t Lisbon. in the first article-“Quantitative Analysis with the It will a t least be 1959 before another analytical congress Spectrograph,” by Charles C. Nitchie of the New Jersey can be held a t the same time as a general IUPAC meetZinc Co. We quote all of paragraph one and part of ing. paragraph two : We also would like to report that the February issue
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In order to satisfy the requirements of modern industrial operations, a laboratory must be in a position to turn out analytical results in the shortest possible time, consistent with reasonable accuracy. Too often the result of a perfectly good analysis is of value only as an explanation of defects and difficulties,rather than as a guide in the production or selection of the material involved. This is particularly true with analyses for those minute amounts of impurities, or of necessary constituents, which often modify to a remarkable extent the chemical or physical properties of materials. This being the case, it is surprising that so little attention has been paid to the spectrograph as a means for carrying out quantitative analyses. It has long been recognized as an instrument for qualitative work, but even in this field its usefulness has not met with the general recognition which it deserves, particularly in industrial laboratories. . . . Could any words of ours more dramatically demonstrate the progress that has been made in analysis and quality control since 19291 We think not. However, we cannot forego the opportunity of saying what vie have said previously on many occasions, that modern
of ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY (out late in January) will be an “exposition” issue. It will contain complete details of the Seventh Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy to be held in the William Penn Hotel, February 27 to March 2. An exposition will be held again in conjunction with the conference. The opportunity to view n&v developments made in instruments during the past year and to establish personal contacts with a large number of manufacturers and distributors of laboratory supplies of all kinds, certainly is a very compelling reason for attending the Pittsburgh conference. Each year the conference has established a new attendance record. We anticipate another new high in 1956. The ACS Pittsburgh Section analysts and the members of the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh are to be congratulated on the continued success of a venture that started only a few short years ago as a modest one-day meeting.
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