Re: Usage of chemistry abbreviation for Normal (N)

Subject: Re: Usage of chemistry abbreviation for Normal (N)
From: Emoto <emoto1 -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:33:58 -0400

Thank you to Paul and all the others who took the time to toss a clue in my
direction. Greatly appreciated! I did go off and check style guides; one
required that I sign up for a free trial. Another place was JAMA (Journal
of the American Medical Association). I was given other specific points on
this list and did my best to find their style choices as well.

It turns out that there is apparently little or no consensus in the
scientific community on this item. Some say use a space, others say do not.

In case anyone is interested, I ended up going internal and asking my local
chemistry "piled higher and deeper" people what they thought I should do.
We have an existing internal convention of putting a space between the
numerals and any unit of measure, such as L for liters, etc., so my experts
decided that Normal was similar enough to a unit of measure that I should
go with the space.

Thanks,

Bob

On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 2:25 PM Paul Goble <pgcommunication -at- gmail -dot- com>
wrote:

> A late contribution to the conversation:
>
> American Chemical Society Style Guide, 3rd edition, says "use a space on
> each side" of the concentration units M, N and m.
>
> Paul Goble
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2020, 12:43 PM Emoto <emoto1 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can someone point me toward an authoritative source for usage of the N
>> that
>> is short for normal? Is there a space between the N and its number value?
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> 0.2N NaOH
>>
>> or
>>
>> 0.2 N NaOH
>>
>> I'm working on a bunch of docs that have this in them and would like to
>> make them all consistent, and would like to base my decision on more than
>> what looks good to me. I like the space in front of the N, but would
>> happily bow to some higher authority.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bob
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Usage of chemistry abbreviation for Normal (N): From: Emoto
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