tional nongovernmental body
formed in 1919 to foster worldwide
communications in chemical science,
both academic and industrial. IUPAC
is the international authority deÜn-
ing recommended terminology,
atomic weights, isotopic abundances,
and other data. The IUPAC rules for
systematic chemical nomenclature
are widely adopted. IUPAC also intro-
duced the *InChI line notation for
compounds.
A- The IUPAC home page
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