Title: ChemFinder Provider: ChemFinder.com
Subject Heading/s: Chemicals
LC Class: QD
Reference Category: Compendiums
Description: Chemical data provided varies; many chemicals have links to external sources for additional information.
Title: [Chemical] Acronym Database Provider: Indiana University Science Libraries
Subject Heading/s: Chemicals--Acronyms; Chemicals--Abbreviations
LC Class: QD
Reference Category: Dictionaries
Description: This source from Indiana University Science Libraries may be searched by either acronym or keyword.
Updated 10/5/2007
Title: Electrochemistry Dictionary Provider: Chemical Engineering Department, Case Western Reserve University
Subject Heading/s: Electrochemistry.
LC Class: QD551
Reference Category: Dictionaries
Description: "Simple and brief definitions of words and phrases used often in electrochemistry. In some cases, a second paragraph provides further information for the 'more scientifically minded.' "
Title: Elemental Data Index Provider: U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology
Subject Heading/s: Periodic law; Chemical elements.
LC Class: QD
Reference Category: Handbooks
Description: "The Elemental Data Index provides access to online scientific data from the NIST Physics Laboratory for each specific chemical element. There are three versions of the index: frames, no-frames, and text-only. In all three versions, you search by clicking on the element in the periodic table. The results screen displays the element's atomic weight, ionization energy, ground-state level, and ground-state configuration, as well as links to all of the NIST databases in which that element appears, including Atomic Spectra Data, X-Ray and Gamma Ray, Radiation Dosimetry Data, Nuclear Physics Data, and Condensed Matter Physics Data."
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Title: NIST Chemistry WebBook Provider: U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology
Subject Heading/s: Chemicals
LC Class: QD
Reference Category: Compendiums
Description: The National Institute of Standards and Technology produces thermochemistry, enthalpy of reaction, infrared and mass spectra, etc. for thousands of compounds.
Title: Organic Compounds Database Provider: Colby College Chemistry
Subject Heading/s: Organic compounds
LC Class: QD
Reference Category: Handbooks
Description: Properties of about 5000 compounds compiled by Harold M. Bell at Virginia Tech. Hosted by the Chemistry Department at Colby College.
Title: Visual Elements Periodic Table Provider: Chemical Societies Network
Subject Heading/s: Periodic law; Chemical elements
LC Class: QD
Reference Category: Encyclopedias
Description: The periodic table serves as an index to an encyclopedia of chemical elements from the Chemical Societies Network.
Title: WebElements Periodic Table Provider: WebElements
Subject Heading/s: Periodic law; Chemical elements
LC Class: QD
Reference Category: Encyclopedias
Description: The periodic table serves as an index to this encyclopedia of chemical elements, by Mark Winter [University of Sheffield, England].
Title: WWW Table of Radioactive Isotopes Provider: Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Subject Heading/s: Radioisotopes
LC Class: QD603
Reference Category: Handbooks
Description: Data on all known isotopes of radioactive elements, supplemented by a Glossary of Nuclear Science Terms.
Added 6/8/04