Recommendations for nomenclature in laboratory robotics and automation (IUPAC Recommendations 1994)

Abstract

Abstract

Flow Chemistry in Contemporary Chemical Sciences: A Real Variety of Its Applications

“…The notions "to automate" or "automation" and their various derivatives are very loosely used when describing chemical instrumentation. The use of mechanical devices to replace, refine, extend, or supplement human effort in operating chemical instrumentation, including flow analytical and synthetic systems, does not mean automation of the instrument, which was clearly indicated already in 1994 in the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) terminological recommendations [295]. Actually, the description covers only a different degree of the mechanization of instrumentation or experimental procedures.…”

“…In spite of the above-mentioned terminological recommendations [295], calling the flow analytical or flow synthesis systems automated is a misnomer. However, in the vast literature on flow chemistry in the fullest sense of the word, one can find several examples of really automated set-ups.…”

Determination of soil pH using a cartesian coordinate laboratory robot and electronic switchbox

“…The robot we used in those studies was of the cylindrical work envelope type (Kingston and Kingston, 1994). Here we describe the use of a Cartesian coordinate robot.…”

A robotic procedure for the determination of soil lime requirement

“…During the course of our literature survey, we discovered only one paper that has been published concerning robotic determination of soil/water pH (pHw) (22), and none at all concerning the soil/SMP buffer pH (pHsMP) determination. In accordance with the definitions laid down in a recently published list of IUPAC recommendations (23), the Zymate II system is based on a cylindrical work-envelope geometry. Components are divided into those that are accessible to the central robot arm (e.g.…”