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Compendium of Chemical Terminology

Compendium of Chemical Terminology (ISBN 0-86542-684-8) is a book published by IUPAC containing internationally accepted definitions for terms in chemistry. Work on the first edition was initiated by Victor Gold, hence its informal name, the Gold Book.

The first edition was published in 1987 and the second one, edited by A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson, was published in 1997. A slightly expanded version of the Gold Book is also freely searchable online.

See also

• International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry nomenclature
• Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry ("Green Book")

External links

• Official Site
• Online version
• Online version, searchable, with XML