42 Guest Editorial - Frank P.Larkins
43 Letter from Monash
44 An Interview with the RACI President
Professor David James answers questions from
the editor on his career and gives his views
on where the RACI should be going. The key RACI
activity for 1990 will be science education for
public understanding.
46 At The Cutting Edge
47 Compahy Profile
48 Letters to the Editor
49 Inside Chemistry
52 Cover Story - ICI Instruments
53 From the Executive Secretary's Desk
54 Institute Elections
55 Obituary
56 New Fellows
58 A Tale of Two Committees
An intrepid pair from Wollongong abandon RACI
conservation and bring chemistry to the masses
with a bang whilst enriching the local RACI's
coffers.
59 Computers in Chemistry
60 Harting Lecture, Polymer Division, POLYMER 91
61 Feature Editorial - Des Connell
62 Environmental Chemistry as a Tertiary Subject
Martin A.Hooper - In Gippsland Environmental
Chemistry is presented as a third year topic
through which students extend their
understanding of chemical pronciples by looking
at the fate and cycling of elements.
64 Environmental Chemistry Report
Ross Sadler - This summary of the inaugural
meeting of the RACI's Environmental Chemistry
Division in Brisbane in 1989 demonstrates the
quality and breadth of environmental chemistry
research in progress all around Australia.
68 Amino Acid Racemisation Dating
C.V.Murray-Smith and R.W.L.Kimber - Fossils
shells, soils etc. contain traces of protein,
which after hydrolysis, derivatisation, chiral
chromatography, and estimation of amino acid
racemisation gives dates back hundreds of
thousands of years.
70 Newsmakers
71 Inorganic Chemistry Nomenclature
Learn if it should be Fe++, Fe2+, Fe+2, Ferrous,
Fe[II] or Iron[II]. Uniform nomencalture is the key
to communicating chemistry.
72 Chemists at Work
Sam Adeloju reports his experience in running
a workshop on Electroanalytical Chemistry in
the Philippines.
74 New Products
77 RACI Marketplace
78 Book Reviews
79 Classfieds
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