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Chemical Education Today
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Editor's Note
John W. Moore
Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53706
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February 2005
Vol. 82 No. 2
p. 212
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Re: The Kilogram ansd Mole Redux

Karol concludes that “it is not for any author to tell this Journal what it may or may not undertake”, which is correct. That is the Editor’s prerogative. My view, however, is more in line with Cvitaš’s. How to define units is not the purview of this Journal, nor do we have the expertise to decide what to publish on the subject. I think it is useful to readers of this Journal to be aware of what is being considered by those committees and in those journals devoted to defining units, because some definitions are likely to be better than others from a pedagogical viewpoint and the JCE community could provide useful input into such deliberations. Henceforth I will entertain manuscripts from official groups whose purview is defining and naming units, where the manuscripts inform readers and allow for input to said groups, but I will not entertain manuscripts that initiate proposals for defining and naming units.
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