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advantages of this particular instru ment setup are the discrete selection of available tests for each patient, the ability to run any number of tests in any order, and presentation of the re sults in less than 8 min after the first reagent pack is inserted in the instru ment. T h e aca can be used 24 h a day and is particularly economical for reg ular runs of small batch, S T A T , and special tests. Du P o n t continues to develop new methods for use with the aca and re cently introduced four new methods at the American Society of Medical Technologists national convention. These new methods, gamma glutamyl transferase, amylase, ammonia, and phosphorus, bring the total number of methods to 32. T h e special analytical test packs for use with the instrument serve both as reaction chambers and cuvettes for photometric analysis.
Du Pont Installs 1000th aca Officials of Du P o n t and Western Pennsylvania Hospital (West Penn) recently celebrated the installation of the 1000th automatic clinical analyzer (aca) with ceremonies in Pittsburgh. T h e first aca, put into service at the University of Wisconsin in 1970 fol lowing five years of research and de velopment, is still operating. Today, combined sales of instruments and test packs for use with the analyzer are approaching $100 million annually. With a basic capacity of any 30 dif ferent test methods, the aca offers un usual versatility. The most significant
Meetings • 26th I U P A C Congress. Sept. 4-10. Tokyo. Contact: 26th Congress of IUPAC, P.O. Box 56, Kanda Post Office, Tokyo 101-91, Japan m MCA Workshop on Safety & Health in the Chemical Industry. Sept. 8. Marriott Hotel, New Or leans. Contact: Milton Freifeld, Manufacturing Chemists Assoc, 1825 Conn. Ave., N.W., Washing ton, D.C. 20009 • Internal Solvent Extraction Con ference, ISEC 77. Sept. 9-16. To-
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ronto, Ontario. Sponsored by the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering, and the Society for Chemical Industry. T h e program includes analytical ses sions. Contact: M.H.I. Baird, Secre tary, ISEC 1977, Chemical Engi neering Dept., McMaster U., Ham ilton, Ont. L8S 4L7, Canada • Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopy Meeting. Sept. 12-14. U. of Glasgow, Scot land. Sponsored by the Electron Microscopy and Analysis Group of the Institute of Physics. Contact: Meetings Officer, The Institute of Physics, 47 Belgrave Square, Lon don SW1X8QX, UK • 7th International Vacuum Con gress and 3rd International Con ference on Solid Surfaces. Sept. 12-16. Vienna, Austria. Contact: Nancy Hammond, Executive Sec retary, American Vacuum Society, 335 East 45th St., New York, Ν. Υ. 10017 m 1977 General Assembly of Gesellschaft D e u t s c h e r Chemiker. Sept. 12-16. Munchen, West Ger many. Includes Analytical Chemis try Division sessions. Contact: GDCh-Geschâftsstelle, Postfach 90 04 40, D-6000 Frankfurt/Main 90, West Germany • Third Symposium on Environmental Aspects of Fuel Conversion Technology. Sept. 13-16. Diplomat Hotel, Hollywood, Fla. Sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory/ R T P . Contact: Franklin A. Ayer, Research Triangle Institute, P.O. Box 12194, Research Triangle Park, N.C. 27709. 919-541-6260 • 50th Anniversary of the Discovery of Electron Diffraction Meeting. Sept. 19-21. Imperial College, London. Organized by the Institute of Physics in collaboration with the Royal Microscopical Society and the Faraday Division of the Chemical Society. Contact: Meetings Office, The Institute of Physics, 47 Belgrave Square, London SW1X8QX, England • 6th International Conference of the IMEKO Technical Committee on Measurement of Force and Mass. Sept. 20-22. Odessa, USSR. Contact: IMEKO Secretariat, H1371, Budapest, POB 457, Hungary. Page 202 A, Feb. m 7th N o r t h American Thermal Analysis Society Conference. Sept. 26-28. St. Louis, Mo. Contact: D. W. Brazier, Ν AT AS Conference
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Chairman, 1977, Dunlop Research Centre, Sheridan Park Research Community, Mississauga, Ont. L5K 1Z8, Canada. Page 202 A, Feb. I 2nd International Symposium on Aquatic Pollutants. Sept. 26-28. Noordwijkerhout (near Amster dam), T h e Netherlands. Approxi mately 30 papers on transport, transformation, identification, and biological effects of aquatic pollu tants will be presented by invited speakers from 10 different countries. Contact: George L. Baughman, Environmental Re search Lab, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, College Station Rd., Athens, Ga. 30601. 404-5463145 I 9th Meeting of the British Mass Spectroscopy Group. Sept. 27-29. U. of Swansea, Wales. Contact: J. R. Chapman, Secretary, British Mass Spectroscopy Group, ΑΕΙ Scientific Apparatus Ltd., Barton Dock Road, Urmston, Manchester M31 2LD, England 3rd International Symposium on Column Liquid Chromatography. Sept. 27-30. Salzburg, Austria. Con tact: Verein Osterreichischer Chemiker, Eschenbachgasse 9, A1010 Vienna 1, Austria 2nd International Symposium on P o l y n u c l e a r Aromatic Hydrocar bons. Sept. 28-30. Battelle's Co lumbus Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio. Contact: Peter W. Jones, Battelle's Columbus Laboratories, 505 King Ave., Columbus, Ohio 43201 Arnold O. B e c k m a n Conferences in Clinical Chemistry. Sept. 2 8 30. Hilton Inn, Annapolis, Md. Sponsored by the American Associ ation for Clinical Chemistry. Topics to be covered are: Basis for Labora tory Testing, Screening for Disease, Strategies for Laboratory Testing, Response to Abnormal T e s t Data, and Education in Laboratory Utili zation. Contact: David Uddin, Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, Md. 20014 16th Annual Meeting of A S T M Committee E-19 on the P r a c t i c e of Chromatography. Oct. 2-5. San Francisco. Contact: Gerald Dupre, Bio/dynamics, Inc., Box 43, Mettlers Rd., East Millstone, N.J. 08873 21st Annual O R N L Conference on Analytical Chemistry in E n e r gy Technology. Oct. 4-6. Riverside Motor Lodge, Gatlinburg, T e n n . Contact: L. J. Brady, Anal. Chem. Div., Oak Ridge National Laborato ry, Oak Ridge, Tenn. 37830. Page 879 A
News • 2nd Annual Symposium on Ana lytical Instrumentation. Oct. 6-7. Hilton Inn at Corporate Square, Baton Rouge. Contact: Larry Cattran, BRAIDG, Box 14233, Baton Rouge, La. 70808 • 152nd National Meeting of the Electrochemical Society. Oct. 9-14. H y a t t Regency Hotel, Atlan ta, Ga. Contact: The Electrochemi cal Society, Inc., P.O. Box 2071, Princeton, N.J. 08540
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cal Society of America. Oct. 1014. Royal York Hotel, Toronto, Ont., Canada.'Organized in cooper ation with the Atomic and Molecu lar Physics and the Optical Physics Divisions of the Canadian Associa tion of Physics. Contact: Optical Society of America, 2000 L St., N.W., §620, Washington, D.C. 20036 • 3rd Annual Conference on N e w Advances in Separation T e c h n o l ogy. Oct. 11-12. Cherry Hill H y a t t House, Cherry Hill, N.J. Contact: W. F. Heneghan, 289 Greenwich Ave., Greenwich, Conn. 06850 m A C S 9th Central Regional Meet ing. Oct. 12-14. Charleston, W. Va. Contact: J. J. Smith, R&D Dept., Union Carbide Corp., P.O. Box 8361, South Charleston, W. Va. 25303 m ACS 13th Western Regional Meeting. Oct. 12-14. Sheraton An aheim Hotel, Anaheim, Calif. Con tact: M. M. Owens, Atlantic Rich field Co., 1801 E. Sepulveda Blvd., Carson, Calif. 90745 • Symposium on B i o l o g i c a l / B i o medical Applications of Liquid Chromatography. Oct. 13-14. Bos ton. Contact: Gerald L. Hawk, Wa ters Associates, Maple St., Milford, Mass. 01757 • Annual Meeting of the Society of Forensic Toxicologists. Oct. 1 4 17. Aboard S.S. Emerald Seas Miami/Nassau. Contact: Leonard Bednarczyk, 1050 N. W. 19th St., Miami, Fla. 33136 m ISA/77 Conference & Exhibit. Oct. 16-20. International Conven tion Center, Niagara Falls, N.Y. Contact: instrument Society of America/77—Niagara Falls, P.O. Box 34093P, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15230 • 91st Annual Meeting of the Asso ciation of Official Analytical Chemists. Oct. 17-20. Marriott Hotel, Twin Bridges, Washington, D.C. Contact: Luther G. Ensminger, AOAC, Box 540, Benjamin Franklin Station, Washington, D.C. 20044. Page 884 A • 24th Canadian Spectroscopy Symposium. Oct. 23-26. Confer ence Centre, Ottawa, Canada. Con tact: T. R. Churchill, Canmet, 555 Booth St., Ottawa, Ont., Canada K1A 0G1 • Midwest U. Analytical Chemis try Conference. Oct. 27-29. Cornhusker Hotel, Lincoln, Neb. Con tact: James D. Carr, Dept. of Chemistry, U. of Nebraska, Lin coln, Neb. 68588 • A S T M Symposium on Aquatic Toxicology. Oct. 31-Nov. 1. Holi-
Computerization of a 4260 Infrared Spectrophotometer. Several months prior to the 1977 Pittsburgh Conference, Beckman technical staff began private demonstrations of their new Infrared Spectral Information System. Fully integrated were a basic computer, a research grade 4260 instrument, a complete signal interface box, and applications software on floppy disc storage. Then in Cleveland, workshops and seminars were held to introduce formally IRSIS capabilities to the public. And now, Beckman is ready to put users nationwide on line with a fully tested, turnkey IR system that can digitize and store spectra on floppy disc, process the data fully through 12 operational programs, and output results to a printer or plotter for final answers. Typical all computercontrolled operations include spectral subtraction, addition, ordinate expansion and averaging, along with a peak pick/ search/match routine for compound identification. Spectra comparison operations have been designed to be completely flexible. For this latter purpose, each user can build a high speed personalized data file to do the exact identification required. Then, all an operator need do is place the sample in the 4260. Final answers to complex identifications appear in minutes. So, don't wait a minute longer to get complete information on true IR computer capability. To talk to the experts, contact your local Beckman representative or Scientific Instruments Division, Beckman Instruments, Inc., P.O. Box C-19600, Irvine, CA 92713.
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News day Inn Cleveland Airport West, Cleveland, Ohio. Contact: Leif L. Marking, Fish Control Laboratory, P.O. Box 862, LaCrosse, Wis. Page 316 A, Mar. • ACS 13th Midwest Regional Meeting. Nov. 3-4. U. of Missouri, Rolla. Contact: S. B. Hanna, Dept. of Chemistry, U. of Missouri, Rolla, Mo. 65401 • 4th Joint Conference on Sensing of Environmental Pollutants. Nov. 6-11. Hilton Hotel, New Orleans. Contact: V. E. Derr, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Environmental Research Lab, Boulder, Colo. 80303 • 1977 International Symposium on Chromatographic Analysis of Polymers and Related Materials. Nov. 7-10. Chicago. Contact: Jack Cazes, Waters Associates, Inc., Maple St., Milford, Mass. 01757 • 12th International Symposium on Advances in Chromatography. Nov. 7-10. International Congress Centre RAI, Amsterdam. Contact: Organisatie Bureau Amsterdam b.v., International Congress Centre RAI, P.O. Box 7205, Europaplein 14, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; or Prof. A. Zlatkis, Chemistry Department, U. of Houston, Houston, Tex. 77004. Page 880 A I Fourth Annual Meeting of the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies. Nov. 7-11. Convention Center, Detroit, Mich. Contact: Mitch Kapron, Ethyl Corp., 1600 W. Eight Mile Rd., Ferndale, Mich. 48220. 313-542-6940 I 15th Conference on Vacuum Microbalance Techniques. Nov. 8-11. Boston. Contact: Nancy Hammond, AVS, 335 E. 45th St., New York.N.Y. 10017 I Conference on National Understanding for the Development of Reference Materials and Methods for Clinical Chemistry. Nov. 16-17. Atlanta. Contact: Adrian Hainline, Clinical Chemistry Div., Bureau of Laboratories, Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, Ga. 30333 I Advances in Photon-Excited X-ray Fluorescence Analysis. Nov. 27-Dec. 2. San Francisco. Sponsored by the Isotopes and Radiation Div. of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) and held in conjunction with the ANS winter meeting. Contact: Enzo Ricci, Analytical Chemistry Div., Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box X, Oak Ridge, Tenn. 37830 I 33rd Congress of the G.A.M.S. on Analytical Chemistry. Nov. 29-
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Dec. 2. Paris. Contact: Secretariat du G.A.M.S., 88 Blvd. Malesherbes, 75008 Paris, France • 1977 Eastern Analytical Symposium. Nov. 30-Dec. 2. Americana Hotel, New York City. Sponsored by American Chemical Society, Society for Applied Spectroscopy, and American Microchemical Society. Contact: G. W. Ewing, Chemistry Dept., Seton Hall U., S. Orange N.J. 07079. Page 316 A, Mar. • Chemical Applications of Lasers— Present Status. Nov. 30-Dec. 2. U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Contact: C. S. Johnson, Jr., Dept. of Chemistry, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514 m ACS 33rd Southwest Regional Meeting. Dec. 5-7. Little Rock, Ark. Contact: A. B. Gosnell, Henderson State U., Arkadelphia, Ark. 71923 • 36th Exposition of Chemical Industries. Dec. 5-8. McCormick Place, Chicago. Contact: International Exposition Co., 200 Park Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017 m Meeting on Infrared and Raman Spectrometries. Dec. 5-17. U. de Bordeaux, France. Contact: P. Pineau, Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Infrarouge, 351 Cours de la Liberation, 33405 Talence Cedex, France • Symposium on Applications of Electroanalytical Sensors. Dec. 6-8. T h e City University, London. Organized by Sira Institute. T h e technical program will concentrate on developments in the application of pH and ion-selective electrodes, ion-selective fet's, and other electrochemical sensors. Contact: R. G. Keiller, Sira Institute Ltd., South Hill, Chislehurst, Kent BR75EH, England • 2nd Annual Toxic Substances Control Conference & Exposition. Dec. 8-9. Shoreham Americana Hotel, Washington, D.C. Contact: Government Institutes, Inc., 1733 Bethesda Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20014. 301-657-2922 • International Conference on Monitoring of Hazardous Gases in the Working Environment. Dec. 12-14. The City University, London, England. Organized by the Chemical Society in conjunction with the Health & Safety Executive, the Electrical Research Association, and the City University. Contact: John F. Gibson, The Chemical Society, Burlington House, London, W1V0BN, England m CLEOS '78—IEEE/OSA Conference. Feb. 7-9, 1978. San Diego, Calif. Organized by the Institute of
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U., Mellon Institute, 4400 5th Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213. Page 802 A, Aug. m 175th ACS National Meeting. Mar. 12-17,1978. Anaheim, Calif. Contact: A. T. Winstead, ACS, 1155 16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 m ACS 12th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting. Apr. 5-7,1978. H u n t Valley Inn, H u n t Valley, Md. Contact: F. Gornick, Dept. of
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