CHEMXUS / CHEMISTRY NOTES

Chemistry,
read from the ground up.

History, molecular basics, and molecular data. Start with the part of chemistry you are already curious about.

01 / EXPLORE

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Alchemy, laboratory tools, and the periodic table: how chemistry took shape over time.

Atoms, molecules, and structural formulas, with the common points of confusion made explicit.

How structures are stored, searched, and compared, including an introduction to SMILES.

FIELD NOTES / BLOG

Notes on reports and papers that caught our attention, with links to the source material.

Suggested order

You can begin without prior chemistry. If a word is unfamiliar, return to the glossary and then continue.