Chemistry Gateways and Resources

Adsorption of Remazol Black B dye on Activated Carbon Felt.
http://www.applied-science-innovations.com/cst-web-site/cst-vol1-issue2/CST-16.pdf
This article describes the results of an investigation into the removal of an anionic dye (Remazol Black B) from aqueous solutions onto a microporous activated carbon felt for the purpose of water treatment. The surface chemistry ... Full description

American Chemical Society (ACS)
http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/memberapp
Web site of the world's largest scientific society. The American Chemical Society represents professionals around the globe in chemistry, chemical engineering, and related areas. The Society advances knowledge and research through... Full description

American Elements
http://www.americanelements.com/
This company's web site features an interactive periodic chart that provides information on the elements, including a description, physical and thermal properties, abundance, isotopes, ionization energy, the element's discoverer, ... Full description

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database
http://www.geo.arizona.edu/AMS/amcsd.php
This database provides access to information on every crystal structure published in the American Mineralogist, the Canadian Mineralogist, European Journal of Mineralogy, and Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, as well as selected ... Full description

An Introduction to Signal Processing in Chemical Analysis
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~toh/spectrum/TOC.html
This 26-page illustrated introduction to digital signal processing in chemical analysis covers signal arithmetic, signals and noise, smoothing, differentiation, resolution enhancement, harmonic analysis, convolution, deconvolution... Full description

Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table
http://www.chem1.com/acad/webtext/atoms/
This is a section of an online textbook ("Chem 1 Virtual Textbook") on General Chemistry at the first-year college or advanced high-school level. It provides an introduction to the structure and properties of the elements and thei... Full description

Avogadro's Number
http://gemini.tntech.edu/~tfurtsch/scihist/avogadro.htm
Some notes and historic background on Avogadro's Number, 6.022 x 1023 Full description

Bilbao Crystallographic Server
http://www.cryst.ehu.es/
The Bilbao Crystallographic Server provides access to crystallographic programs, tools, and databases. The tools are grouped according to type: space groups retrieval; group-subgroup relations of space groups; representation theor... Full description

Center for Environmentally Responsible Solvents and Processes: Activities
http://www.science-house.org/CO2/activities/index.html
Classroom lab activities and demonstrations that allow younger students (elementary to middle school) to explore the chemistry of polymers and carbon dioxide using common household items. Many activities are tied to interviews wit... Full description

Chemical Heritage Foundation: Online Publications
http://www.chemheritage.org/pubs/pub-nav3.html
This small collection of online books includes titles focusing on innovation in chemistry and the history of the field as a science and a business. Topics include semiconductor electronics, technological advances, science educatio... Full description

Chemical Synthesis Database
http://www.chemsynthesis.com/
This database provides information on thousands of chemical compounds, including synthesis references and physical properties. The database is searchable by keyword and browseable by journal title. For each compound, the informati... Full description

Chemistry Demonstrations
http://genchem.chem.wisc.edu/demonstrations/Default.htm
This web site, created by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Chemistry Department's Demonstration Lab, provides brief descriptions of ideas for demonstrations that can be used in the teaching of General Chemistry, Analytic Chemis... Full description

Chemistry Experiments: Chemistry Challenge for Kids Ages 5 Through 12
http://www.sciencenter.org/chemistry/
These chemistry experiments for younger students, from the Sciencenter of Ithaca, New York, can be performed as demonstrations by the teacher, at home, or by the students themselves. These experiments, which investigate the proper... Full description

Chemistry World
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/index.asp
This magazine features news analysis, articles, interviews, and opinion columns covering all aspects of the chemical sciences. Topics include research, business news, government policy issues, and product applications. The homepag... Full description

ChemMatters
https://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/memberapp?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_TRANSITIONMAIN&n...
ChemMatters is a quarterly magazine for high-school chemistry students published by the American Chemical Society and dealing with the following topics: What is chemistry? How does it work? And how does it affect me? Each issue in... Full description

ChemTube3D: Interactive 3D Organic Reaction Mechanisms
http://www.chemtube3d.com/index.html
ChemTube3D contains interactive 3D animations for some of the most important organic chemistry reactions covered during study for an undergraduate chemistry degree, with supporting information on reactivity and spectroscopy. Each ... Full description

Classic Chemistry
http://web.lemoyne.edu/~GIUNTA/classicalcs/topics.html
Classic Chemistry is a web site offering a wealth of primary sources in the history of chemistry. It includes a large collection of classic chemistry papers; quantitative exercises (with teaching notes and solutions) tied to and b... Full description

Common Chemistry
http://www.commonchemistry.org/
A web resource that contains Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Registry Numbers for approximately 7,800 chemicals of widespread general public interest. Common Chemistry is helpful to non-chemists who know either a name or CAS Regi... Full description

Common Compound Library
http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/compounds/library.shtml
This database, part of a college-level chemistry course, provides information on hundreds of compounds, elements, and substances encountered in introductory chemistry courses and in everyday life. The informaion includes chemical ... Full description

Conservation of Mass
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Civil-and-Environmental-Engineering/1-061Fall-2008/LectureNotes/...
MIT OpenCourseWare animations on conservation of mass. Full description

Countertop Chemistry
http://www.science-house.org/learn/CountertopChem/index.html
Chemistry activities and demonstrations that use common household items and kitchen chemicals. There are activities appropriate for students in elementary school, middle school, and high school. The activities were designed and te... Full description

Crystal Lattice Structures
http://cst-www.nrl.navy.mil/lattice/
This site provides an index of common crystal lattice structures--arrangements of atoms in a crystalline substance. The structures are indexed by Strukturbericht designation, Pearson symbol, space group, and prototype. Each struct... Full description

Crystallography Open Database
http://www.crystallography.net/
This database provides access to crystallographic data placed in public domain by the contributors. The data consists of unit cell parameters, chemical formula, coordinates, a brief literature reference and, when available, atomic... Full description

Dalton's Atomic Theory
http://dl.clackamas.edu/ch104-04/dalton's.htm
Brief account of the atomic theory developed by nineteenth-century chemist John Dalton. Full description

Distillations: Extracts from the Past, Present and Future of Chemistry
http://distillations.chemheritage.org/
This weekly science podcast focuses on the past, present, and future of chemistry. Program content includes interviews, monologues, reviews, features, and other items intended to provide historical perspective on current scientifi... Full description

Electrochemical Society Digital Library
http://ecsdl.org/
The Electrochemical Society (ECS) Digital Library is an online collection of journals, books, and other society publications. Publications include the society's print and online journals, meeting transactions and abstracts, books,... Full description

Electrochemistry Dictionary
http://electrochem.cwru.edu/ed/dict.htm
This dictionary, which accompanies the online Electrochemistry Encyclopedia (http://electrochem.cwru.edu/ed/encycl), provides brief definitions of words and phrases used often in electrochemistry, the branch of chemistry dealing w... Full description

Electrochemistry Encyclopedia
http://electrochem.cwru.edu/ed/encycl
This online encyclopedia features articles describing many aspects of electrochemistry, the branch of chemistry dealing with reactions involving electrical currents and potentials. The articles are written by leading experts in th... Full description

ElectroSim 2.0: Interactive Simulations of Basic Electronic and Operational Amplifier Circuits
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~toh/ElectroSim/
ElectroSim 2.0 is a collection of theory-based interactive simulations of simple electronic circuits, suitable for a course in elementary practical instrumentation electronics; the simulations were created for use in an "Electroni... Full description

eMolecules
http://www.emolecules.com/
This database and search engine provide access to publicly available information on chemical compounds and their structures, including millions of graphic representations of molecular structure. The data can be searched by text or... Full description

Expert System for Thermodynamics
http://www.thermofluids.net/
The Expert System for Thermodynamics (TEST) is a web-based software platform used to analyze thermofluids problems, verify hand calculations, pursue what-if scenarios, visualize thermal systems, and conduct other investigations in... Full description

Exploring the Nanoworld
http://mrsec.wisc.edu/Edetc/
The Exploring the Nanoworld web site offers instructional materials on nanotechnology, a science and technology based on the control of matter on the atomic or molecular scale. The site introduces the nanoscale (a nanometer equals... Full description

Greener Education Materials for Chemists (GEMs)
http://greenchem.uoregon.edu/gems.html
GEMs is a database of educational materials, for various levels, promoting green chemistry--the redesign of chemical transformations and processes to reduce use of materials hazardous to human health and the environment. The 54 it... Full description

Interactive Computer Models for Analytical Chemistry Instruction
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~toh/models/
This collection of interactive computer models and simulations of common instruments and techniques used in analytical chemistry is available for free download. The software can be used on Macintosh or Windows computers. Most of t... Full description

Learning Matters of Chemistry
http://www.knowledgebydesign.com/tlmc/tlmc.html
This site provides access to a variety of resources for learning in chemistry. The resources include visualizations, animations, and movies; computer-aided learning software for Macintosh and Windows; interactive features and appl... Full description

Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSEC)
http://www.mrsec.org/home/
This is the homepage of the Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSEC), a network of research centers located at academic institutions throughout the United States. The MRSEC web site features highlights from resea... Full description

Nano, Quantum, and Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics: Data and Property Calculation Websites
http://tigger.uic.edu/~mansoori/Thermodynamic.Data.and.Property_html
This collection of links provides access to web sites associated with nano, quantum, and statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. The links are arranged by type: data sites, calculation/program download sites, organizations invol... Full description

Nano, Quantum, and Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics: Educational Sites
http://tigger.uic.edu/~mansoori/Thermodynamics.Educational.Sites_html
This collection of links provides access to web sites associated with nano, quantum, and statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. The links are arranged by type: basic principles (including classical thermodynamics), nano, quantu... Full description

National Atmospheric Deposition Program
http://nadp.sws.uiuc.edu/
The National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP) is a multi-agency cooperative program to collect, analyze, and monitor the chemistry of precipitation. The program supports a network of monitoring sites where precipitation is co... Full description

Organic Chemistry I: Notes, Problems, and Practice Tests
http://www.mnstate.edu/jasperse/Chem350/Chem350.html
This is the web site for an undergraduate Organic Chemistry I course (first semester of a two-semester sequence) taught at Minnesota State University, Moorhead. It offers the syllabus plus a full set of classroom lecture notes, wi... Full description

Organic Chemistry II: Notes, Problems, and PracticeTests
http://www.mnstate.edu/jasperse/Chem360/Chem360.html
This is the web site for an undergraduate Organic Chemistry II course (second semester of a two-semester sequence) taught at Minnesota State University, Moorhead. It offers the syllabus plus a full set of classroom lecture notes, ... Full description

Organic Chemistry Portal
http://www.organic-chemistry.org/
The Organic Chemistry Portal offers an overview of recent topics, interesting reactions, and information on the most important chemicals. Full description

Pauli Exclusion Principle
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/pauli.html
This tutorial provides instruction on Pauli's exclusion principle, formulated by physicist Wolfgang Pauli in 1925, which states that no two electrons in an atom can have identical quantum numbers. Topics include a mathematical sta... Full description

Physical Setting/Chemistry Core Curriculum
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/mst/pub/chemist.pdf
This guide is intended to assist high-school teachers and supervisors as they prepare curriculum, instruction, and assessment for the chemistry content and process skills in the New York State Learning Standards for Mathematics, S... Full description

Primer on Quantum Theory of the Atom
http://www.chem1.com/acad/webtut/atomic/qprimer/
This question-and-answer tutorial provides an introduction to quantum theory and the electron structure of the atom. Suitable for advanced high-school students and those beginning postsecondary education, this "quantum catechism" ... Full description

SciCentral: Physics and Chemistry News
http://www.scicentral.com/P-02phys.html
This site provides links to physics- and chemistry-related news articles from a variety of outlets and journals. Sources featured on the site must be freely accessible to online readers and are ranked by the editors based on relia... Full description

Science of Spectroscopy
http://www.scienceofspectroscopy.info/
This Wiki-based resource provides an introduction to spectroscopy for advanced high-school and postsecondary students. The site uses real-world applications of spectroscopy to involve students and provides links to external resour... Full description

Testing the Theory: Macromolecules
http://www.chemheritage.org/educationalservices/faces/teacher/poly/readings/proof.htm
This resource from the Chemical Heritage Foundation illustrates the scientific process in the case of testing experimentally, and definitively, the idea of the existence of macromolecules. Full description

TheLiquidPhase: Countercurrent Chromatography
http://www.theliquidphase.org/
TheLiquidPhase is a community portal, or wiki, dedicated to the proliferation of knowledge and good technique in countercurrent chromatography (CCC). It has been organized to help prospective users of CCC learn about its potential... Full description

Tox Town: Environmental Health Concerns and Toxic Chemicals Where You Live, Work, and Play
http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/
This guide provides information on everday locations where toxic chemicals might be found; descriptions of hazardous chemicals; information on environmental impacts on human health; and links to online resources for information on... Full description

Why Doesn't the Electron Fall into the Nucleus?
http://www.chem1.com/acad/webtut/atomic/WhyTheElectron.html
This tutorial offers a conceptual and nonmathematical answer to a question rarely given explicit treatment in conventional textbooks, and often answered incorrectly by teachers in terms of classical mechanics. The explanation cove... Full description

XAFS.org
http://xafs.org
X-ray absorption fine-structure (XAFS) is a spectroscopic technique that uses x-rays to probe the physical and chemical structure of matter at an atomic scale. XAFS.org is a community website (a wiki), editable by its users. Site ... Full description