Chemistry Resources

Periodic Table

http://www.webelements.com/webelements/index.html

A periodic table of the elements on the internet.

Click on any element in this periodic table to get more information on it.  If you click on an element you will come to a page on that element with a side-bar menu of topics about that element.

http://www.chemicalelements.com

Another periodic table of the elements on the internet. 

Click on any element in this periodic table to get more information on it.

Chemistry Concepts

http://www.chem4kids.com/atoms/structure.html

Need to give your brain a break? 

See how atomic structure is presented at a site created for kids.

Be sure to follow the arrows at the bottom of each page to go on to the next page

and check out more helpful stuff on general chemistry topics written in a very readable format.

http://chemed.chem.purdue.edu/genchem/topicreview/bp/ch3/massmol.html

This site contains information on topics such as: Atomic Mass, Isotopes, Atomic Weight, Molecular Weight, The Mole, Avogadro's Constant, and Converting Grams into Moles.

http://www.chemistry.co.nz/avogadro.htm

Very brief discussion of what is Avogadro's law and what does the law have to do with Avogadro's number.

http://www.chemtutor.com/acid.htm

This is the CHEMTUTOR site on Acids and Bases.  It corresponds to approximately 18 printed pages.  Topics covered here are:What is an acid or a base? Properties of acids.  Properties of bases.  Strong acids and bases.  Solubility and dissociation.  Overview of pH. The pH box.  Calculator use with pH box.  The pKa box.  Weak acids and weak bases.  pH of strong acids and bases.  Weak acids.  Weak bases.  The 5% rule.  pH of weak acids and bases.  Buffers and pH of buffers.  Buffer math.  Titration.  Salts.  Titration and pH math problems.

http://www.elmhurst.edu/~chm/vchembook/index.html

Virtual Chembook Main Index

You might want to start with General Chemistry Topics such as:

Introduction to the Study of Chemistry - Atoms, Elements etc.

Compounds and Bonding - Ionic / Covalent etc.

And move on to some of the Organic & Biochemistry Topics such as:

Carbohydrates, Lipids, Amino Acids, Enzymes, DNA/RNA etc.

Biochemistry Topics

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/imagepages/19529.htm

Complex carbohydrates

Brief summary via ADAM and US National Library of Medicine

http://www.sportsci.org/news/compeat/carbo.html

Carbohydrates? They aren't that simple!

Louise M. Burke, australian Institute of sport

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_amino_acid

Essential amino acid

An entry from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia