Elemental

This is for the alchemical apprentices of the House of the Wyvern. Herein may be found accounts and recipes of the molecular arts.


Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Reasons For Colour

There's a beautiful little web-exhibit on the reasons why things are coloured. You can find it here. The page which is probably most relevant for students doing spectroscopy is here.

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Sunday, July 08, 2007

Take A Break

For all the sad and depressed would-be analytical chemists, here is an entertaining look at the electromagnetic spectrum. There are a lot of weird things making waves out there...

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Monday, April 09, 2007

Colours

Just a couple of very useful pages for people who like that sort of thing:

The relationship between UV-Vis absorptions and TM complex colours

and

ways of seeing redox reactions.

Enjoy!

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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Infrared Spectroscopy

This is an excellent site for examining IR spectra. It is especially good because it shows molecular models and animates the vibrations that give rise to specific absorptions. You will need to download the CHIME plug-in.

Thanks to CKW for providing the URL.
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