ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
CONTENTS · JUNE 1958
Report for Analytical Chemists Information concerning current trends in laboratory instrumentation for analysis is progressing very rapidly. While instrumentation specialists are cognizant of these changes, many analytical chemists are not fully familiar with them. The first of a two-part series d e scribes the characteristics and principles of construction LOWPB PRtÇES F O R ISO I OHES
N e w s Section THIS MONTH'S COVER
Markedly
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lower
costs
and
ready
Analytical chemists at the highly successful ACS meeting at San Francisco heard many reports on significant new developments. Several other meetings are scheduled in the early summer . . . . 31 A
availability of a wide range of radioisotopes p r o v i d e t h e a n a l y t i c a l chemist with a p o w e r f u l f o o l . ticular
One par-
a p p l i c a t i o n , tritium t r a c i n g , is
b e i n g used f o r a v a r i e t y o f a p p l i c a tions.
New
instrumentation
which
takes a d v a n t a g e o f the p r o p e r t i e s o f tritium
is also
developing.
Analyst's Column The role of the scientist in politics, the question of whether gas chromatograms should be recorded right to left or vice versa, and the question of the supply of selenium appear in the Analyst's Column. 53 A
The In-
strumentation column sets f o r t h a d d i t i o n a l details (see p a g e 6 5 A ) .
Laboratory of the Month American Cyanamid's Research Center at Bound Brook, N. J., provides ample facilities for expanded research activities
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Instrumentation In addition to a report on tritium tracer technology, the instrumentation column discusses recording differential thermobalances . . . Volume 3 0 , N o . 6 Issued M a y 2 1 , 1 9 5 8 ©
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Analyst's Calendar
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N e w Books
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Manufacturers'Literature.
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Product Capsules . . . .
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N e w Products
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_ , . . . Readers Information Service
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b y The A m e r i c a n Chemical Society
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Scientific Communications Amino Acid Analysis by Reactor-Gas Chromatography
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Albert Zlatkis a n d J . F. Oro
Programmed Temperature Gas Chromatography
1157
Stephen D a l Nogare a n d C . E. Bennett
Benzene Extraction of Antimony Iodide Use of Perchloryl Fluoride in Flame Photometry
R. W. Ramette 1 1 5 8 1160
G . E. Schmauch a n d E. J . Serfass
Crystallographic Data Germanium Bismuthate, GesBi4Oi2
André Durif 1 1 6 1
Infrared Quantitative Analysis Data Nos. 4 6 - 4 9
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Aids for the Analyst High Temperature Thermal Conductivity Cell
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H. R. Felton a n d A . A . Buehler
Small-Volume Five-Centimeter Absorption Cell
1163
Gerald Goldberg, A . S. M e y e r , Jr., a n d J . C. White
Urea Phosphate Reagent as Specific Test for Heptoses on Paper Chromatograms F.L.Greene 1 1 6 4
