The collection contains the abstracts from 1980-1989.

Viewing the Abstracts

Abstracts may be viewed as plain text in the Knowledge Bank record or as an image. To view the image of an abstract from an item page, click the abstract file under "Files" or the abstract thumbnail under "View".

Searching and Browsing the Abstracts

Searching:
The formulas and special characters appearing in titles and abstracts have been encoded with TeX, denoted with "$"'s around the expression, to facilitate searching. In general, note and follow these instructions:

• At this time, searches are not case-sensitive.
• Use quotation marks around search terms or phrases (i.e., "Intermolecular Forces" or "H_2 O").
• To search greek letters or other special characters, write their names out (i.e., \pi, \leftarrow, \Sigma, pm (for plus minus), etc.).
• If searching expression found in an abstract, replace each "$" symbol with quotation marks (i.e., $Kr^{3+}$ becomes "Kr^{3+}" or $^{1}\Sigma^{+}_{u}$ becomes "^{1}\Sigma^{+}_{u}" to search).
• Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) must be ALL CAPS when used (i.e., Nafie AND 1990, title:"H_ 2" NOT 1985, etc.)
• If, when searching a molecule, no hits are returned, try adding a space between any sub- or superscripted element in the search term (i.e., "C_6H_6" will not produce hits, but "C_6 H_6" will).

For more advanced search help, please see the MSA search tips page.

Browsing:
The abstracts are grouped by decade. Each decade serves as a collection within the Symposium community. The "Issue Date," "Author," and "Title" options on each collection page allow browsing by those fields.