I'm wrting an article, there are two terms "Carboxymethylcellulose" and "Critical Micelle Concentratio" both have the abbreviations of "CMC". How should i distinguish them?
It depends on your scientific constraints.
If you are describing real micelles I'd suggest to use CMC (or cmc) for them because it is part of compendium of chemical terminology reported by IUPAC. However, if you are describing more generic amphiphilic aggregates you should use CAC (or cac) for them (Critical Aggregation Concentration).
In the first case, Authors describe Carboxymethylcellulose as Na-CMC or NaCMC or CMCNa or CMC-Na or carboxyMC or... CMC (uppercase) for cellulose and cmc (lowercase) for aggregates.
Use CMC for carboxymethylcellulose and cmc for critical micelle concentration.
Sangeeta Kumar, Ca stands for Calcium, so carboxymethyl cellulose should not be named CaMC!
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