Web Directory

» American Institute of Physics Center for History of Physics: The Discovery of the Electron
   An exhibit with text, animations and voice about J.J. Thomson's 1897 experiments which helped bring understanding of the electron as a fundamental unit of matter.
   http://www.aip.org/history/electron/

» Atom Gallery
   Scanning tunneling microscopy image gallery of many metals and surfaces on an atomic scale.
   http://www.almaden.ibm.com/vis/stm/gallery.html

» Canadian Society of Chemistry: Inorganic Division
   Provides news and information on conferences, awards and jobs.
   http://ftp.cheminst.ca/divisions/inorganic/

» Diamond
   An essay on diamond, prepared as molecule of the month presentation.
   http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/diamond/diamond.htm

» Gas Hydrates
   Information from the Janda lab on clathrate hydrates, an ubiquitous class of crystalline inclusion compounds with nonstoichiometric composition, consisting of guest molecules trapped in a lattice of polyhedral water cages.
   http://chem.ps.uci.edu/~kcjanda/Group/Research_hydrates.html

» Gold
   The crystal structure of gold.
   http://www.3dchem.com/molecules.asp?ID=177

» Inorganic Syntheses
   Book published by John Wiley and Sons to provide all users of inorganic substances with detailed and foolproof procedures for the preparation of important compounds. Available to download as pdf files.
   http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/bookhome/93512759

» Institut für Theoretische Physik der Universität
   Quasicrystals and Symmetry, a technical discussion about quasicrystals.
   http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/peter.kramer/

» Kaboom!
   Information about some of the important elements in the construction of fireworks.
   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/kaboom/elemental/

» Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Particle Adventure
   The fundamentals of matter and forces.
   http://particleadventure.org

» Marz Kreations Chemistry Page
   An online database of experiments done by a teenager. Non-professional but instructive with many experimental examples. Hobby oriented presentation.
   http://www.marz-kreations.com/Chemistry/160-Chemistry.html

» Quantitative Analysis of Mercury, Silver, Tin, Copper and Zinc in Dental Amalgam
   The percentages of these metals left in dental amalgam are measured and Faraday's law is used to compute the release of mercury from dental amalgam due to galvanic current between gold alloy dental material and amalgam.
   http://www.ibiblio.org/amalgam/

» Quasicrystals Page
   Explanation, pictures, and wallpaper of these unusual structures.
   http://www.physics.emory.edu/~weeks/pics/icon.html

» Selected Classic Papers from the History of Chemistry
   Including many for early to present atomic hypothesis and the discrete nature of matter.
   http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/papers.html

» Solubility of Things
   Provides information on the solubility of various types of chemical substances such as salts and alcohols, with chemical formulae and examples.
   http://www.solubilityofthings.com

» The Crookes Tube and Related Experiments
   Information on the inventor, who built a simple apparatus around 1875 to study the effect of gas pressure on the voltage necessary to cause a spark.
   http://neon.chem.uidaho.edu/~honors/111 Notes/The Crookes Tube and Related Experiments.htm

» Viselements
   A visual interpretation of the table of elements.
   http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/pages/page3.html

» Water Structure and Behavior
   A scientific description of water, including anomalies in water, the molecule and its bonding properties.
   http://www.martin.chaplin.btinternet.co.uk/index.html