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Distilled Web Sites
ChemInt'99
Chemistry and the Internet (ChemInt'99) was held at Georgetown
University in Washington DC September 25-27, this year. The web site
allowed speakers and posters to submit abstracts electronically and a full
program is available on lecturers including Alan Arnold from University
College (UNSW), Northern Illinois University's Steven Bachrach, Robert
Bovenschulte from the American Chemical Society and Karl Harrison of
Oxford University.
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Chemistry has always been about looks, from colourful crystal
gardens to the beautiful symmetry of the fullerenes. The
Chemist's Art Gallery carries some spectacular visualisations
and animations of chemistry done at the Visualisation and
Animation Laboratory at the Center for Scientific Computing in
Finland. Movies of microcavities inside a polymer matrix,
solvation processes, molecular orbitals and the like should
bring out the aesthete in every chemist.
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Look kindly on molecular art!
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Everything you weren't afraid to ask about
chemistry with Ask Antoine |
If you are not quite sure how antiseptic soap and mouthwashes
work and why our increasing use of them could be storing up
bacterial trouble for the future, take a look at this site. You will
also find out a dirty little secret about water and what happens
when you put CO2 in latex balloons. Perfect
material for classroom and lecture hall alike.
There is also serious content aimed at general chemistry
students - including the basics of measurement and the
differences between acids and bases. If you stick with it there's
even a straightforward description of quantum theory, although I
still don't get that bit about the cat.
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