More than 400 nonprofit MEP centers are in place throughout the United States to provide guidance to struggling companies. Beginning in 1999, nonprofit and for-profit educational organizations and health care providers were eligible to apply for new awards in their respective fields. The home page for this division is a jumping-off place for a plethora of scientific and technical information. The latter is a powerful Internet tool that allows the user to find chemical and physical data for particular chemical species. Direct searches can be completed starting with name, CAS number, formula, structure, molecular weight, or author.
Indirect searches locate relational data to that which is already displayed.
As is evident from just this short recitation, NIST is a source of a vast amount of high-quality information. It is well worth the time spent to look over its resources. Not only can you learn the official U.S. time in all four time zones, but the links to various time exhibits will walk you through history and answer questions about daylight savings time and modern time keeping. All of the URLs were last accessed on May 8, 2000.