Chemistry

To advance the broader chemistry enterprise and its practitioners for the benefit of Earth and its people.

A selective, annotated collection of the best Web links for students in General Chemistry courses.

An excellent compendium of Chemistry- and Science-related data, in many ways more comprehensive than the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, and certainly more convenient to use.

Most of these resources come from the National Science Digital Library (NSDL). NSDL is the National Science Foundation's online library of resources for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.

This web page located on the National Science Foundation's web site will interest everyone in its discussion of "stuff." Despite this endless variety of particular interests and specialized subdisciplines, the sciences of stuff do have a fundamental unity. They are tied together by the common goal of understanding and controlling everything about molecules and materials, from the making and breaking of chemical bonds on timescales of less than a nanosecond, to the aging and corrosion of steel bridge supports on timescales of more than a decade.

Liquids and solids differ from gases in that they are held together by forces that act between the individual molecular units of which they are composed. In this lesson we will take a closer look at these forces so that you can more easily understand, and in many cases predict, the diverse physical properties of the many kinds of solids and liquids we encounter in the world.

Site by Charles Ophardt of Elmhurst College covers a wide swath of general, organic, and environmental chemistry. The text material is interesting and well written without attempting to be encyclopedic.