Ill. on lining papers. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

This is an edition of a standard reference for chemists, biochemists, pharmacists, and related professionals. It contains 10,000-plus monographs. About 4,000 of the entries cover drugs and pharmaceuticals, 2,000 describe common organic chemicals and laboratory reagents, another 2,000 cover naturally occurring substances and plants, 1,000 focus on the elements and on inorganic chemicals, and approximately 1,000 pertain to compounds of agricultural significance. Finally, several hundred discuss endogenous substances and biological agents. In addition to revisions and updating, changes include embedding the Chemical Abstracts Registry Numbers for title and derivative compounds within the monographs. Monographs -- ; International Patent Country Codes -- ; Company Register -- ; Code Letters Used by Companies for Experimental Substances -- ; International Non-proprietary Names for Radicals and Groups Proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO) -- ; United States Adopted Names (USAN) Council Contractions for Radicals and Adducts -- ; Indicators -- ; Amino Acid Abbreviations and pKa Values -- ; Chemical Terms Translator -- ; Common Heterocyclic Ring Systems -- ; Thermometric Equivalents -- ; International System of Units (SI) -- ; Numerical Prefixes Commonly Used in Forming Chemical Names -- ; Alchemical Symbols Used in Biology and Botany -- ; Prescription Notation -- ; Isotonic Solutions -- ; Radioactive Isotopes Used in Medical Diagnosis and Therapy -- ; Latin Terms -- ; Greek Alphabet -- ; Russian Alphabet -- ; Roman Numerals -- ; Organic Name Reactions -- ; Atomic weights.