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Standard Atomic Weight of Ytterbium Revised

24 AUGUST 2015 – The IUPAC Commission on Isotopic Abundances and Atomic Weights (II.1) met under the chairmanship of Dr. Juris Meija, at the University of Natural Resources and Life...

Provisional Recommendations

Provisional Recommendations are drafts of IUPAC recommendations on terminology, nomenclature, and symbols, made widely available to allow interested parties to comment before the recommendations are finally revised and published in...

TheeDigital Launched Our New WordPress Website

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is proud to announce the launch of our newly redesigned website, built by award-winning website design and digital marketing agency, TheeDigital. Our goal was...

Student Physical Chemistry Cartoon Competition 2013 Prizewinners

The prizewinners for the student physical chemistry cartoon competition run this year(1) by the Division of Physical and Biophysical Chemistry are: Jenna Bilbrey, a postgraduate at the University of Georgia,...