These organizations help to maintain standard terminology for chemistry and physics, and also recognize the discoveries of chemical elements.

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This style, combined with the tendency invent new terminology for standard concepts, makes searching the patent database almost impossible.

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In addition to security and speed, SWIFT offers a standard interface to reach pretty much any bank in the world with a standard message format to provide completely automated processing of payments, straight-through processing (STP) in industry terminology.

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