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INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PURE AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY DIVISION
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and Symbols in :1'hysical Chemistry Prepared for publication by

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IAN MILLS
KLAUS HOMANN

TOMISLAV CVITA
NIKOLA KALLAY

KOZO KUCHITSU
SECOND EDITION

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Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry

INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PURE AND APPLIEDCHEMISTRY PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY DIVISION COMMISSION ON PHYSICOCHEMICAL SYMBOLS, TERMINOLOGY AND UNITS

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INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PURE AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY

Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry
Prepared for publication by

IAN MILLS
Reading

TOMISLAV CVITA
Zagreb

KLAUS HOMANN
Darmstadt

NIKOLA KALLAY
Zagreb

KOZO KUCHITSU
Tokyo

SECOND EDITION

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Quantities, units and symbols in physicalchemistry! prepared for publication by Ian Mills.. [ct al.}.—2nd ed. cm. p. At head of title: International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry 'International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Physical Chemistry Division, Commission on Physicochemical Symbols, Terminology, and Units'—P. facing t.p. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-632-03583-8 1. Chemistry, Physical andtheoretical—Notation. 2. Chemistry, Physical and theoretical—Terminology.

First published 1988 Reprinted 1988 Reprinted as paperback 1989 Russian translation 1988 Hungarian translation 1990 Indian reprint edition 1990 Japanese translation 1991 Second edition 1993 Reprinted 1995, 1996, 1998

I. Mills, Ian (Ian M.) II. International Union of Pure and Applied
Chemistry.

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Contents
Preface vii

Historicalintroduction viii

1 Physical quantities and units 1 1.1 Physical quantities and quantity calculus 3 1.2 Base physical quantities and derived physical quantities 4 1.3 Symbols for physical quantities and units 5 1.4 Use of the words 'extensive', 'intensive', 'specific' and 'molar' 7 1.5 Products and quotients of physical quantities and units 8 2 Tables of physical quantities 9 2.1 Space and time 11...