Chemdict: A dictionary of Chemical Terms. This dictionary is compilation gathered from an online catalogue of chemicals produced by Showa Chemicals Ltd. This catalogue is volume 28, consolidated as of August 2002. http://www.st.rim.or.jp/~shw/cat_dex.html The original catalogue was produced in Adobe PDF format. Using Adobe Acrobat Distiller, the individual files were then saved as RTF documents, which were then read into Microsoft Word 2000. Using that word processor, they were then saved as encoded text, in Japanese EUC encoding. After that, a perl script was used to extract the contents and produce a rough draft of chemdict in files separated according to Showa Chemicals' index. Final proofing was done manually. William F. Maton, 20090321