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I WISH to report what is believed to be the first successful mechanical translation of chemical names into chemical formulæ. Tsukermann and Terentiev1 have indicated their intention to work on this problem.
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GARFIELD, E. Chemico-Linguistics: Computer Translation of Chemical Nomenclature. Nature 192, 192 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/192192a0
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