Sunday, September 20, 2009

The Chem Helper

Chemistry is somewhat busy work. A lot of it (at least so far) involves reaching for a periodic table and then adding the molar mass up. And then there's the stoichometry part of it, the tedious multiplying by ratios that we already tested on.

Wolfram Alpha can help with all that.

If you never been to wolframalpha.com, you're in for a treat. Need the molar mass of bromochlorodifluoromethane (CBrClF2, could totally happen)? Just type in

CBrClF2 Molar Mass

into the search box. Or if you like, you could also say

bromochlorodifluoromethane Molar Mass

pretty cool eh?  Also the team may also release features such as reaction predictions etc. But so far, molar mass is pretty much the thing that takes up the most time (at least for me).

This post will probably be updated as the chem class progresses for either new features or new ways to exploit it.

-runiteking1

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