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the free encyclopedia.
The Gold Book or
Compendium of Chemical Terminology
(ISBN
0865426848) 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 the name.
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.
