Tying up loose ends

This, the 300th edition of Thermochimica Acta coincides neatly with the retirement of the author. It is an opportune moment to look back at research which has featured the use of classical calorimetry and thermal analysis to investigate such disparate areas as organic and organo-metallic compounds on the one hand, and pyrotechnic systems on the other. This retrospective view is concerned in part with some of those issues that are as yet unresolved. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.