Article: Have We Lost Our Equilibrium?

Over the last few years, there has been a very disturbing trend. While our printing capabilities have improved well beyond the wildest dreams we might have had a decade ago, more and more printed material ends up with people unable to print common symbols. It really bugs me when I see people substituting equal signs, double-headed arrows or anything else they can think up to indicate our beloved double-harpoon arrows in a chemical equation. The chemical profession seems to operate so quietly that they disappear into the background. Microsoft didn't even know we were there when they were setting up the standard character sets. Far too many people are prepared to accept that ...

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