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into errors in elementary organic microanalysis has been started by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry's Division of Analytical Chemistry. The Division's Commission on Microchemical Techniques has set up a Study Group on Errors in Elementary Organic Microanalysis, which is intended to centralize, classify, and publish these findings for the benefit of all. The Study Group invites microanalysts of all countries to collaborate in this collective international task by sending in a, report of the results of their experiences. The report must be drafted in either German, English, French, or Russian. I t must be divided into as many separate parts as the errors under examination. Each p a r t must follow the headings of the following outline. 1. 2.
Element(s), amount(s) Microanalytical range (milligram, decimilligram, centimilligram) 3. Microanalytical balance employed (principle, model, installation, with or without air-conditioning, etc.) ; standard deviation of weights 4. Method employed—principle of mineralization (combustion), principle of t h e determination, apparatus, reagents, method of operation, etc. 5. Type of error studied—systematic or uncertain errors a:ïecting t h e accuracy or precision of the results 6. Order of algebraic magnitude of t h e systematic error, standard deviation or possible limits of t h e uncertain errors (errors of chance) 7. Sources of error, real or apparent. All of t h e factors of error must be retained, especially those which a p pear in the following unlimited list: Order of magnitude of t h e contents to be determined Physical properties of t h e compounds analyzed (condition, vapor pressure, h y groscopicity, triboelectricity (static electricity) etc.) Structures of the compounds analyzed Presence of interfering elements Presence of interfering functional groups Principle of the method of mineralization (combustion) employed Principle of determining the end product Reagents employed (nature, degree of purity, source) Other chemical products employed
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EDITOR'S COLUMN Small apparatus and various material employed (joints, stoppers, glass, silica, plastic materials, metals, etc.) Manual or automatic apparatus employed for the mineralization (combustion) Apparatus employed lor t h e measurements (balances, burettes, colorimeters, spectrophotometers, potentiometers, coulometric, conductometric, or thermal eonductometric set-ups, recorders, integrators, etc.). Possible influence of automation Operative parameters (temperature, rate of gas flow, pressure, etc:.) Knvironment parameters (temperature, relative humidity, atmospheric pressure, air pollution, vibrations situation and exposure of the laboratory, place or position of installation in the laboratory, etc.) Subject parameters (manipulations, lecturers, observations) Operative methods and techniques 8. Means employed for characterizing the source of error (if possible) 9. Modifications eventually used with the intention of diminishing or eliminating the error 10. Suggestions 11. Specific questions
The deadline for t h e reports is J u l y 1, 1964. T h e present study is already in progress: consequently, the reports, can be addressed without delay t o t h e following members of t h e Study Group on Errors in E l e m e n t a r y Organic Analysis: a. American reports in the English language t o : D r . Al Stcyermark, Chairman, Commission on Microchemical Techniques, HoffmannLa Roche, Inc., N u t l e y 10, N . J. b. E u r o p e a n reports in the G e r m a n or Slavic languages (with the exception of Russian) t o : D r . Wolfgang Schôniger, Secretary, Commission on Microchemical Techniques, M i croanalytical L a b o r a t o r y , Dept. of P h a r m a c e u t i c a l Chemistry, Sandoz, Ltd., Basle 13, Switzerland. c. Reports originating in Russia t o : D r . Ν . Ε . Gel'man, Associate M e m ber, Commission on Microchemical Techniques, I n s t i t u t e on Elemental Organic Compounds, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. d. Reports in the English, French, or G e r m a n languages which origi n a t e in countries other t h a n those listed in a, b, a n d c, t o : D r . Roger Levy, T i t u l a r Member, Commis sion on Microchemical Techniques, C h a i r m a n , Study G r a u p on Errors in E l e m e n t a r y Organic Analysis, Central D e p t . of Microanalysis of the N a t i o n a l Center of Scientific Research, 39 bis, r u e de Datzig, P a r i s 15, F r a n c e .
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