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CHEMISTRY-RELATED WEB SITES

A sample of internet sites containing

a wealth of chemical data

American Chemical Society. Available online, URL:
http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/home.html. Accessed
April 28, 2004.
The official Web site of ACS. Features a molecule of the
week, a discussion board, polls, news, and calendar of events.
A separate member’s section features election results, mem-
bership information, resources, and benefits. Registered users
can create their own personalized page. An “Educators &
Students” page presents suitable-level essays on chemistry-
related issues. There is free access to recent articles from
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research,the Journal of
Combinatorial Chemistry,and the 125 most-cited journals of
the ACS publications program.

Chemistry. Available online, URL:
http://chemistry.about.com/mbody.htm. Accessed April 28,
2004.
This educational Web site contains articles, dictionaries, sci-
ence fair ideas, clip art, various databases, and archives of
previously published material.

Chemistry Functions. Available online, URL:
http://www.stanford.edu/~glassman/chem. Accessed April 28,
2004.
A unique Web site where you can solve a number of chem-
istry-related problems such as performing molar conversions
and balancing equations. The site also has an interactive peri-
odic table and links to other sites.

Chemistry Teaching Resources. Available online, URL:

http://www.anachem.umu.se/eks/pointers.htm. Accessed April

28, 2004.

This Web site presents a comprehensive list of chemistry

teaching resources on the Internet and features more than 20

categories.

Classic Chemistry. Available online, URL:

http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta. Accessed April

28, 2004.

This Web site presents the full text of classic papers presented

by famous chemists, from Arrhenius to Zeeman. There are

links to other history of chemistry sites. The site also contains

classic calculations from many leading thinkers, but read the

teachers notes first. A history-of-chemistry calendar presents a

daily rundown of chemistry-related events and major discoveries.

Links for Chemists. Available online, URL:

http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/links.html. Accessed

April 28, 2004.

This is a worldwide metasite that contains links to hundreds

of chemistry-related sites from companies, research centers,

publications, history, and education. This is a good site to

start a search for chemistry material.

NIST Chemistry WebBook. Available online, URL:

http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry. Accessed April 28, 2004.

This Web site provides thermochemical, thermophysical, and

ion energetics data compiled by NIST under the Standard Ref-

erence Data Program. The NIST (National Institute of Stan-

dards and Technology) Chemistry WebBook provides users

with easy access to chemical and physical property data for

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