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If you want to suggest a site for this page, send the address to me in an email message. 12/13/05 If you're curious about the composition of some extremely important consumer products, such as Cheese Whiz, self-tanners, and silly putty, you should visit Todd Stratton's suggested site. 12/13/05 Do you think that love has a chemical basis? There's some evidence that it does. Check out the article published by the Times of Oman and suggested by Marlee Payne. 12/13/05 Want some Lewis structure practice? Check out the site suggested by Michelle Carvalho. 12/13/05 Rebecca Kohl's suggested site allows you to collect a lot of information about common substances. 12/13/05 You can find out about trans fats at Alan Mar's suggested site. 12/13/05 You can see an animation that illustrates the function of a bomb calorimeter at Tatiana Nery's suggested site. 12/13/05 Dee Tran suggests an amusing website dedicated to research on dihydrogen monoxide. 12/13/05 Tony Nguyen suggests a site that shows the orbital diagrams of elements. 10/9/05 Bahador Jafarpur suggests a site that is very useful to Chemistry 1A students when studying chemical bonding in Chapters 8 and 9. 10/9/05 Nanoparticles of iron could be used to sweep clean contaminated industrial sites, filter agricultural chemicals from water running off farms, and even recycle drinking water for cities. Todd Stratton suggests a site that describes what nanoparticles are, how ultrapure nanoparticles of iron can be made, and how they can be used. Todd suggests a second site called ChemCases.com that presents twelve case studies of chemistry in the products we use and the situations we meet. This site helps you evaluate the decisions behind these products and situations. 10/9/05 Sammy Baho suggested a site that can provides help for many of the topics we cover. 9/21/05 Was Einstein really a chemist rather than a physicist? See Jayrom Lontoc's suggested site. 9/20/05 Mole day is coming up. Mole Day commemorates Avogadro's Number (6.02 x 1023) annually on October 23 from 6:02 a.m. to 6:02 p.m. Jayme Oswald suggests an amusing site the celebrates the beauty of the mole. 9/20/05 Angelica Espinola's suggested site describes some recently discovered information about ozone in our atmosphere. 9/20/05 Dieu Tran found us a site that describes laughing gas (N2O) and how it can be used as an anesthetic, a propellant in aerosol cans, and as a boost for race cars.
9/20/05 The site suggested by Lizbeth Martinez looks
like its got some very useful information.
9/20/05
8/26/05 Patrick Riel
de Vera suggests a site that deals
with a very important topic...alternative energy. In this case, his site
describes novel ways of storing hydrogen for use as a fuel. Check it
out; it's interesting.
8/26/05 Jin-Kyoung
Yi found us a site that has links to
lots of information about chemistry and its connection to the real
world.
8/26/05 Tuan Le's
suggested site provides you with a concise description to the treat of
CFCs to the ozone layer.
8/26/05 Chee-Ah Thao
suggests the Royal Society of Chemistry sight that gives you access to
lots of chemistry-related information. You might find the news section
most interesting.
7/26/05 Thought Isaac Newton was a stoggy
math-science guy? Check out this article about is notes on alchemy
suggested by Denise Gan 7/26/05 John "JP"
O'Brien suggests a site that shows
you the atomic spectra of the chemical elements.
5/5/05 Jennifer
Berntsen found us a very cool site.
Here's what she said about it..."Florida
State University in Tallahassee, Florida has put up a very
interesting page on its site. It begins as a view of the Milky Way
Galaxy viewed from a distance of 10 million light years and then
zooms in towards Earth in powers of ten...10
million, to one million, to 100,000 light years and then it finally
reaches a large Oak tree. If ever there was a witness to creation, these
folks have captured it for our viewing pleasure!" 3/1/05 Eric Ledger
found us a site that describes one of the reasons for ozone depletion
above the Artic region of the earth.
3/1/05 This site, suggested by
Jessica Hanna, doesn't
have much chemistry, but what is there is very cool. 2/1/05 Mara
Rosenthal starts our semester with
just the right tone. I assume that you've promised yourself that you're
going to be studious this semester, but you're not quite ready to be too
serious...right? How about a game of Chemistry hangman found at 11/15/04 Want to know how historical artifacts are
dated? Jane Gray's
suggestion below provides a concise description of one technique.
11/15/04 This site has been suggested before, but
it's certainly worth posting again. I'm sure all of you will be excited
to know that there's a Molecule of the Month page...suggested by
Brian Woolworth. 8/24/04 Ewa Pruska
has the distinction of getting the
first suggestion posted this semester. Her link takes you to a page that
leads you to an interesting cornstarch video and to a way to make your
own slime. 8/24/04 Joe Schulte
suggests several great sites. The first is a section
of the How Things Work general site that explain things related
to the physical sciences. At this point, it describes how fireworks,
radon, and electromagnets work. The second one is on the Chemical and
Engineering News site and describes the chemistry of everyday products.
6/27/04 Rosa Arroyo
starts our summer suggestions with a site that provides health and
safety Information on household products.
5/26/04 Interested in finding out more about how
we arrived at the stage chemistry is at? Check out
Shelton Sutherland's
suggested site.
5/7/04 The
following is a quote from the first page of
Raquel Figueroa's
suggested site, "The Chemical Heritage Foundation serves the
community of the chemical and molecular sciences and the wider public by
treasuring the past, educating the present, and inspiring the future. In fulfillment of our mission, this site offers many tools for
the researcher, the student, and those who want to explore and discover
how chemical and molecular science has changed the world we live in." 5/7/04 James Willis suggests a site that
describes the CFC controversy in a little different way than was
described in class.
3/25/04 Do you have a TI-83?
Irina Roland found you
a site where you can download chemistry-related programs for it.
3/25/04 Want to learn more about ethanol (without
consuming any, of course)? Click on James
Ragle's suggested link below.
3/25/04 Scot Bilbro
suggests a site that describes how to convert vegetable oil into diesel
fuel.
3/25/04 Casey Kim
suggests the American Chemical Society website, which has a wealth of
chemistry-related information.
2/25/04 Eric Smith
suggests a site that describes some of the latest advances in the realm
of the very tiny.
2/6/04 Here is a link to a Web page that describes
the possible discovery of two new elements. 2/5/04 February's National Geographic has an
important article about the issues relating to the carbon we release
into the environment and how our planet reacts to this released carbon.
Jamie Lucido
found a site that provides a brief summary of the
article.
2/5/04 Irina Roland
suggests a great site for Chemistry 1A folks to visit. It has links to
tutorials, quizzes, interesting articles, animations, etc.
2/3/04 It's a little early in the semester, but
we can always use a good joke or two (or even a bad joke or two). Here's
a site that has some of each...suggested by
Lindsay Garfield.
2/3/04 The link below is not exactly the site
suggested by Raquel Figueroa,
but it's close enough to give her credit. I didn't have time to explore
it, but it seems to have some great stuff.
2/3/04 Juan Koponen's
suggested site has a collection of links to many other interesting,
useful, and amusing chemistry-related sites. It's a good place to start
to find other sites to suggest.
2/3/04 Thinking about a career in forensic
science?...just like to find out how the scientists help to determine
"who done it"? Check out the site suggested by
Kate Marland. One link
from the first site looked especially interesting, so I added its link
too.
2/3/04 Some of
David Hoffman's suggested site looks
to be too high a level for our interest, but other parts looked too cool
to pass by.
2/3/04 This one is for the biology majors in our
crowd. We can thank Jason House
for suggesting it.
2/3/04 Now, here's an important site. It's been
suggested before, but it's certainly worth repeating. According to the
website, "T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. stands for Tests With Inorganic
Noxious Kakes In Extreme Situations.
T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. is a series of experiments conducted during finals
week, 1995, at Rice University. The tests were designed to determine the
properties of that incredible food, the Twinkie."
Abe Rudo
found this site for us.
2/3/04 I know...I said no periodic tables...but
this one was enough different than others to be worthy of including on
our list. It was suggested by DJ Singh.
2/3/04 I'm not sure how we should feel about
Gerald Vogel
suggesting this site to us... 2/3/04 Jared Kibele
and Michael Beasley
both suggested a site that might provide a useful overview for many of
the topics covered in first year chemistry courses.
2/3/04 David Russo
found us another useful site that has links to lots of handy tools.
2/3/04 Katherine
Parker's suggested site provides
definitions for many chemical and environmental terms.
11/30/03 Rob
Gnat's suggested site has links to
lots of interesting stuff, including information about the antioxidants
BHT and BHA, the cancer-fighting effects of a chemical in tomatoes, and
chemicals for hangovers.
11/30/03 The site suggested by
Richard Barnes is on
this list somewhere, but it's time to move it higher.
11/30/03 Michael
Krol suggests a site with "a
selective, annotated collection of the best Web links for students in
General Chemistry courses." 11/30/03 Mason
Weidner-Holland suggests a site that
is designed to help you with several of the chemistry-related topics
that students often have trouble with.
11/30/03 Suzanne
Alaouie found another
site with "tutorials, quizzes, test and
information to help with your chemistry learning needs." 10/21/03 Can't get enough chemistry? Want to do
some chemistry experiments at home? Carrie
Peters has the site for you. 8/31/03 Here's how the site suggested by
Jen Lopez starts, "Throughout all of the interesting stuff in Chemistry,
there are a few items of interest that make you think "Whoa,
I didn't know that". Here is our archive of interesting little facts and
figures, parcels and bits of info, and brain food, all of which we like
to call Factoids:" 8/31/03 Sayaka
Shiohata's suggested site has links
to many other websites that provide interesting information about
chemistry-related sites.
8/31/03 Robert
Yamane suggests the American Chemical
Society webpage. 8/31/03 Sarah Elias
suggests the Green Chemistry Network
site that states, "The main aim of the GCN is to promote
awareness and facilitate education, training and practice of Green
Chemistry in industry, academia and schools." 8/31/03 Dawn
Schweitzer's suggested site has links
to a number of activities that might be useful.
7/22/03 Brenden
Selvig has found two great sites that
describe fuel cells.
7/22/03 We've gotten a couple of good suggestions
for chemistry-related projects that you can do at home. Kate Summers
found us a site that describes how you can make your own snowflakes. The
process includes the precipitation of a solid from solution and
demonstrates how temperature affects solubilities of solids. Athena Pierre
suggests a site that describes some simple experiments that you can do
at home, including experiments that relate to acid rain, crystal
growing, and the inside story of diapers. 7/22/03 Are you interested in knowing more about
the chemical ingredients of toothpastes? Check out
Elizabeth Benjamin's
suggested site.
6/18/03 Who said chemistry can't be amusing?
Check out the site suggested by Jenny
Sparkman. (Some of the jokes found
there will make more sense by the end of the summer.) 6/16/03 Brenden
Selvig has made the first good
suggestion of the summer. The link below takes you to a site that makes
finding out about the gasoline additive MTBE a game. The site describes
MTBE to some extent (including brief descriptions of why it was
originally added to gasoline and why it is now being phased out for use
in gasoline), but the webpage also asks you other questions about MTBE
and provides links to other sites that provide the answers.
5/29/03 Click on the link below to hear an NPR
interview that explains the issues that relate to our standard kilogram.
This was suggested by Gregg and Kimberly Frostrom.
5/29/03 Frances
Karg suggests a site that gives more
information about our all-important "Oreo" issue. It's an article from
the 5/29/03 Monterey Herald.
4/20/03 Looking for a site to recommend?
Noori Hakim's
suggested site can help. It's got links to many, many chemistry-related
websites.
4/20/03 Naomi Campbell
suggests a site that tells you all about the chemicals is shampoo.
4/20/03 Christine
Clifton suggests a site that might
help you to better understand that relationship between CFCs, ozone, and
our environment.
3/27/03 View the Milky Way at 10 million
light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in
successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just
outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in
Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of
a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell
nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of
electrons and protons.
Daniel Matter gets the credit for
this one.
3/27/03 Robert Pace
found a good site that will give you some practice working titration
problems in an interactive manner.
2/11/03 Brandy Barr
found a site that describes isotopes and the fate of unstable
(radioactive) isotopes. Check out the Java Applets. They do a great job
of showing you what happens in radioactive decay.
2/11/03 Frances
Karg found an excellent general site
with a wealth of useful information about chemistry. There are some
especially good animations 2/4/03 " How much has changed for women
chemists in the past three decades? How much has the salary gap been
narrowed? How much progress has been made in breaking through the glass
ceiling at universities and in corporate boardrooms? Can women chemists,
especially those with children, really balance a personal life with a
professional life? Are things really better? And what are the prospects
for the new millennium? Is it business as usual? What can each of us do
to make a difference? " To see some answers to these
questions, check out this site suggested by
Nicholas Starkey . 2/4/03 Robert Pace
suggests you take a look at the Chemist's Creed suggested by the
American Chemical Society.
2/4/03 Laila Hakim
found a site created by The Biology Project that summarizes some of the
chemistry that biology majors should know.
2/4/03 The ozone in the stratosphere protects us
from potentially damaging ultraviolet radiation, but ozone is a serious
pollutant in the lower atmosphere. Sung
Min suggests a site that tells us how
ozone is generated in the air we breathe and how it affects our bodies.
12/16/02 April
Allard found a site that describes
some of the complaints about Olestra.
12/16/02 Gregory
Vering suggests a site with more
information about enzymes.
12/16/02 It's time to lighten up a bit, and
Andrea Moravec
has just the site to help. Already now, let's all sing along.
11/7/02 Lisa Kroopf
has found a wealth of links, including one to an article in support of
my campaign to stop using "disorder" in any sentence that also includes
entropy and another that describes the Nobel Prize given to Rowland,
Molina, and Crutzen.
11/7/02 Joe Baker
found us an amusing site that describes what readers suggested when t he Washington Post asked
them to dream up new elements for the
Periodic Table.
11/7/02
April Allard suggests a site that
describes "a black goo that brakes the
laws of physics on demand ". 10/1/02 Tom Rehak
suggests a site that provides a lot of general information about
chemistry-related topics, including how smoke detectors work and why
leaves change colors in the Fall. 10/1/02 Kenny Ed
suggests a site that has definitions for chemistry-related terms. 10/1/02 Alexander Mackenzie
found us an interesting site that describes safety
issues for many chemicals. 10/1/02 Yes, believe it or not, they're chemistry
songs...suggested by Gregory Vering . 9/13/02 I tend not to post the suggestions for
periodic tables, but Phillip Kurth
suggested one that is just too beautiful to pass up.
9/13/02 Interested in a career in a
chemistry-related field?
Robert Gnat
found a site where you can explore the possibilities.
9/3/02 Here's a list of general sites that might
be useful. The name of the person that suggested each site follows the
link.
6/25/02 There's one web-based periodic table that
puts the rest of the periodic tables on the Internet to shame (including
mine), and Takayuki Yokoyama
has found it. If you want information about any of the chemical
elements, check out this site.
6/2/02 Mi-young Kang
suggests a site where you can find out
about one of the most important chemists of the 20th century. 5/31/02 Want more information on many of the
topics covered in MPC's chemistry courses? Check out
Alexandra Polk's suggested
sites.
5/31/02 Timothy Richards
suggests an interesting article on changing limits for arsenic in water.
It's on the website for Popular Science magazine.
5/14/02 Ann Anthony
suggests two New York Times articles entitled 5/14/02 Matthew Bacler
suggests a very good site on molecular orbital theory .
It includes a special topic on paramagnetism and sharks' teeth. 4/9/02 Mohammed Englizi
suggests a site that describes the
work done by Ahmed H. Zewail. Dr. Zewail, who was born in Egypt, is now
a professor of chemistry at California Institute of Technology. He won
the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1999 for his research that involves a
technique that "uses what can be thought of as the world's fastest
camera".
3/19/02 Our future geologist,
Ronald A. Meserve , found a site that
relates to geochemistry. Look at the image on this site and tell me if
it makes you think of a certain black sweater with flames shooting up
the arms. Click on various parts of the image to get more information. 2/22/02 Want to know more about how things work?
Thomas Barbuto
suggests a site with links to information about octane ratings,
gasoline additives, reformulated and leaded
fuel , why certain candies spark in the dark, the
chemistry of counterterrorism, and much more.
2/19/02 Gian Teed
is the latest 1A student to join our illustrious group of star Web
surfers. He suggested a number of sites. I'm going to leave it to Gian
to describe the Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names site. I'll
play it safe and post his suggested site that claims to provide a
" collection of experiments
[that] will add joy to your science experience ".
The site also suggests that we all "[s] hare the fun of scientific
experimentation with friends or family members ". I
suspect that Gian is showing Aunt Mary Anne one new experiment each
night.
2/17/02 Matthew Bacler
found us a site that provides links to articles dealing with
chemistry in Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba,
Czech Republic, Egypt, Poland, and Slovenia . 2/12/02 Want to know how batteries work...how
aerosol cans work...how beer works...and lot more?
Michael Becker's found the site for
you.
2/12/02 Blake Wilkinson
suggests a U C Berkeley Library site that has links to a lot of
chemistry-related sites. 2/10/02 Rodney Korver
suggests a webpage on the Nobel e-Museum site. This page describes how
metal atoms can be trapped inside fullerenes, one of the allotropes of
carbon. 11/13/01 Mikhail Faybyshev
provides us with hours (well, maybe minutes) of entertainment viewing
movies of chemicals. I especially recommend to movie on water. 11/13/01 Aaron Tondreau 's
suggested page provides a cross index of documents that are
typically presented in an undergraduate general chemistry course . 11/13/01 Augustina
Martiniuc-Ursino 's suggested site
leads you to many chemistry-related animations. 11/13/01 Brian Pierce
suggests a site that describes one important application of redox
reactions. 11/13/01 The site suggested by
Tim Haag has links to many useful
pages that relate to Chemistry 1A. 11/13/01 Zeke Bean
found us a site that has a number of useful sections that relate to
acids and bases. 11/13/01 Aaron Pagan
suggested The Nobel Prize in 2001 page.
7/25/01 Mimi Park found us a site
that provides an excellent introduction to organic compounds. It
includes likes to Chime structures that allow you to rotate and size
molecules to get a better feel for their 3-dimensional structure.
7/20/01 DeVonne Callaway and Christina
Vu both suggested sites that have links to many other
chemistry-related sites. Thus, they are a good source of useful
information and potentially a good source of other sites to recommend
for this list.
7/20/01 Christina Vu found you a
site that allows you to download chemistry tutorial software that can
help you to learn about acids, atoms, chemical bonding, and much more.
5/1/01 April Campise surfed all the way
to England to find this suggestion. It shows and explains 40 chemistry
demonstrations.
5/1/01 Want a tip on how you might answer a thermodynamics short
answer question on the next exam? Rachael Hoffman
suggest you visit the site below.
5/1/01 The Web page below takes you to a link to a page that lists
the scientists who have been awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry. Eric
Ulwelling says, "The list identifies who won by year
and a brief description of their achievements that made them Nobel prize
winners."
5/1/01 Eric's at it again. Now, he's
telling us,
"Wondering where all this studying will get 'ya? Try the
chemistry careers link at: www.erols.com/merosen/careers.htm
for a virtual "truckload" of possibilities in the chemistry
and biotechnology fields."
...what a strange way to put it. I wonder why he calls it a truckload?
5/1/01 Kelly Arnett suggests the home
page of CREST (Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology).
This site describes how energy can be derived from hydroelectric,
geothermal, biomaterial, wind ,a d solar sources. It also suggests
conservation techniques. These folks appear to be doing all they can to
protect us from rolling blackouts.
5/1/01 Wendy Thompson suggests a site the
describes the interaction of light and electrons. It has a good
diagram of a prism spectrometer and a schematic for one like we used in
lab.
5/1/01 I promised myself that I wouldn't post another periodic table
here, but who can pass up the Periodic Table of the Condiments. It tells
you the shelf life of condiments in a periodic table form. Our thanks go
to Melanie Cuddy for this one.
5/1/01 Anami G. Anderson suggests a
general site that has lots of useful tools.
3/9/01 Mike Macken suggests the chemistry
section of the Interactive Learning Network. It includes some video and
audio clips that will help you understand several chemistry-related
topics.
3/8/01 The link below takes you to a list of tutorials and quizzes
that you might find useful. Thank Ron Corah
for this suggestion.
3/8/01 Ayako Yamashita suggests a site
that links you to an interactive simulation that allows you to create
your own model of the periodic table of the elements.
3/8/01 There are a lot of periodic tables on the Internet, but this
one, suggested by Protus Tanuhandaru, is the
most visually striking. The link below is to the Flash/Shockwave
version.
3/8/01 Your challenge is to figure out the clues that show that this
apparently serious website is in fact a hoax. Justin Otis
suggested this one.
3/8/01 Hector Gavilanez's suggested site
has a wealth of information about chemistry.
3/8/01 Want to know more about the fundamental particles that form
the basis of matter. Check out Jaimason Berkheimer's
suggested site.
3/8/01 Si Ian Wong suggests a site that
provides a lot of information about the element cadmium, including a
description of Ni-Cd batteries.
2/11/01 I try not to repost sites that are already listed below, but
this one's worth the repeat. Heidi Elliott
recommended it this time. The link below takes you to an alternative periodic table. This table includes elements like tedium,
Td, sanatorium, Sa, Hefnerium, He, and celinedion, Cd.
2/1/01 Rachel Hoffman starts our list of
student sites for this semester on a sensitive, literary note. Click on
the symbols for the elements on this periodic table to see poems.
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