Vol.
28 No. 4
July-August 2006
Treasurer's
Column A Balance Difficult to Keep
by
Christoph Buxtorf
As
treasurer of IUPAC and as a chemist, I am constantly concerned
with how things balance out. When it comes to the Unions
bookkeeping, I try to ensure that the left and the right side
of the balance sheet are equal, hopefully ending with positive
earnings and a happy future. And as a chemist, I must think
about chemical equilibrium, which is described succinctly
in Le Chateliers principle:
Every
change of one factor of an equilibrium occasions a rearrangement
of the system in such a direction that the factor in question
experiences a change in a sensed opposite to the original
change (H.L. Le Chatelier, Annales des Mines
13(2), 157[1888]).
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