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The '''''Compendium of Chemical Terminology''''' is a book published by the [[International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry]] (IUPAC) containing internationally accepted definitions for terms in [[chemistry]]. Work on the first edition was initiated by [[Victor Gold (chemist)|Victor Gold]], hence its informal name, the '''''Gold Book'''''.

The first edition was published in 1987 (ISBN 0-63201-765-1) and the second edition (ISBN 0-86542-684-8), edited by A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson, was published in 1997. A slightly expanded version of the ''Gold Book'' is also freely searchable online. Translations have also been published in French, Spanish and Polish.

==See also==
* ''[[Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry]]'' (the ''Blue Book'')
* ''[[Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry]]'' (the ''Red Book'')
* ''[[Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry]]'' (the ''Green Book'')
* ''[[Compendium of Analytical Nomenclature]]'' (the ''Orange Book'')

==External links==
* [http://goldbook.iupac.org/index.html Online version] (searchable, with XML)
* [http://www.iupac.org/publications/compendium/index.html Online version] (PDF files of the print version, no longer updated)
* [http://www.iupac.org/publications/books/author/mcnaught.html Official Site]
* [http://old.iupac.org/publications/books/seriestitles/nomenclature.html IUPAC Nomenclature Books Series] (commonly known as the "''Colour Books''")

[[Category:Chemistry books]]
[[Category:Chemical nomenclature]]

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