Vol. 38 (2012): Bulletin of the Chemists and Technologists of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dear user,

In front of you is the 38th issue of the magazine "Bulletin of the Chemists and Technologists of Bosnia and Herzegovina", published by the Faculty of Science and Mathematics in Sarajevo. If only we had luck, if God granted us a more civilized environment, this would be, at least, the 58th number, and this text would not even exist. Barbaric attempts from the hills to destroy all civilization achievements in our country resulted, unfortunately, in a serious setback in the development of chemistry, chemical technology and scientific fields and disciplines that rely on chemistry, as well as difficult compensable stoppage in scientific and professional journalistic activities throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina, and especially in Sarajevo. Regardless of all these difficulties, the scientific and professional curiosity of the local chemists as well as the necessary and present enthusiasm and need to develop and progress, were not absent. The results of scientific and professional research of our personnel were announced in such scientific journals in our immediate environment, but also far beyond it. With considering the capacities of today's chemists, especially their youth and good health training, it is no longer enough to perform and publish individually, even if it is within the framework of respectable world scientific institutions and reputable reference journals. This practice should be continued whenever it is useful for our environment and people, but must gradually focus on incorporating the acquired knowledge into our chemical reality.

Today, this work must be approached from a systematic and systemic platform approach to science, and the results of this approach must be published in domestic, own, scientific and professional magazines. Despite the fact that the modern world has become "small" in many aspects, even in scientific informatics, the continuation of the appearance of this journal will give contribution to the world of science from Bosnian-Herzegovinian sources, primarily from Sarajevo, but also from other university and scientific research centers in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

With the desire that this magazine becomes a respectable scientific and professional publication, which will affirm our environment, the Earth and people in chemistry and related branches of science and thus achieve the desired goals, we recommend you to intensify your scientific activities, and inform our and the world's scientific public about their results by publishing them in this journal.