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The American Society for Testing Materials, through its Committee on Spectrographic Analysis, has sponsored the publication of two indexes on the literature of Spectrochemical analysis. The first, issued in 1940, covered the years 1920–39 and contained 1,467 references and a detailed subject index. The second, “Index to the Literature on Spectrochemical Analysis. Part II, 1940–1945”, issued in January of this year, gives references to 1,044 publications on Spectrochemical analysis that have appeared during the years 1940–45 inclusive. In addition, there are thirty-six references, for the years 1938 and 1939, that were omitted from the earlier Index. The references are arranged in chronological order, and for each year the material is listed in alphabetical order according to the authors. English titles are given for all the papers, but foreign book titles are left untranslated. In the earlier Index abstracts were not given but only references to the published abstracts of the papers. Because of the widely scattered nature of the literature, and because many libraries probably lack complete sets of foreign periodicals for the war years, a brief abstract is provided, in Part II, for every spectrochemical publication listed. In most cases the abstracts are quoted verbatim from Chemical Abstracts, but where necessary, by consulting other abstracting journals and the original articles, a more suitable abstract has been compiled. This painstaking and intensive work, both of maintaining and compiling the Index, has been done under the direction of B. F. Scribner and W. F. Meggers, of the National Bureau of Standards, Washington. A helpful, detailed subject index, which covers the content rather than the titles of the several papers, completes the Index.
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Literature of Spectrochemical Analysis. Nature 160, 563 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160563a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/160563a0