General Resources | Chapter 1 Links | Chapter 1 Interlude | Software Tools

---

• General Resources for Introductory Chemistry
  
  • The ChemTeam
    Includes material appropriate for general chemistry.  Definitions and tutorial exercises with answers are provided.
  • World of Chemistry
    Extensive resources for chemistry education. Visit the General Chemistry link for concepts and worked-out examples.
  • Chemdex
    The Sheffield Chemdex is a chemistry portal.
  • General Chemistry Starting Points
    More resources, including jokes.
  • Just Ask Antoine
    Your general chemistry questions answered.
  • The Chemistry Hypermedia Project
    Tutorials on various topics in general chemistry.
  • Chemistry Journals
    A database of online articles.

     

• 1. Chemistry: Matter and Measurement
  
  • Measurements Converter and Engineering/Scientific Unit Converter
    Comprehensive converters for many units.  Also lists books about the related topics.
  • Accuracy and Precision
    Illustrations and links.
  • Temperature Scales
    From the U. S. Metric Association.
  • Periodic Table
    An interactive periodic table.
  • Fundamental Physical Constants from NIST
    Authoritative values from this federal laboratory.

 

• Interlude: Chemicals, Toxicity, and Risk
  
  • Yahoo: Toxicology
    The Yahoo search engine toxicology section.
  • National Toxicology Program
    Extensive resource, including factsheets.
  • The LD₅₀ Test
    Information about the limitations and ethics of this experimental technique.

     

---

Software Tools

Annotations in this listing indicate sites that use (or link to sites that use) software tools beyond the browser. Information on these tools can be obtained as follows:

Chime MDL Chemscape Chime Page See also RasMol sites:  RasMol molecule viewer Berkeley-enhanced RasMol Java Java home page at Sun Microsystems Netscape Navigator Java support page QuickTime Apple QuickTime home page Shockwave Macromedia VRML An Introduction to VRML