Feb 15, 2008

Watery Typo Leads to Salvation

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In the realm of physical chemistry (or is it chemical physics?) there was almost theological interest in this week’s Alchemist. Having written about water glass and how low-temperature studies of aqueous phase changes are helping scientists to explain this anomalous and yet ubiquitous material it was a simple spellcheck-induced typo that drew the most interest from The Alchemist’s email newsletter readers.

Wave after wave (pardon the …

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Feb 8, 2008

Chemistry Dictionary

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UPDATE: Version 2.0 of the chemistry dictionary now available.

“It took me the better part of a month,” Azman told Chemspy, “but I’ve made my own and I want
it to be as open-source as possible. Chemspy Sciencebase is now hosting Azman’s efforts ready for free download zipped chemical dictionary file here). The chemistry dictionary is in standard “.dic” format and instructions for installing it on Microsoft …

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Jan 21, 2008

18 Handpicked Online Periodic Tables

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Where online do you turn, when you are looking for a periodic table?

The domain name PeriodicTable.com – reveals a superb online periodic table with an obvious website name and the option to buy a poster printout.

For more on what Periodic Tables mean and their underlying formulations check out Periodic Table Formulations by Mark Leach

Berkeley nuclear chemist Mitch Garcia who runs ChemicalForums.com, would, as would …

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