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Other Chemical Links
This listing is not meant to be comprehensive (see "extensive index sites" below). Rather they serve to introduce Chem 10X students at the University of Alberta to the range of topics on the WWW. Examples of sites that might be of interest on the Web include
- general interest items like (see also other index sites and miscellaneous below)
- a site devoted to drugs obtained from tropical rain forest plants by D.E. Bierer, T.J. Carlson, and S.R. King of Shaman Pharmaceuticals.
- the chemistry of coffee by R.J. Lancaster at the University of West Indies Mona , Jamaica (warning - the transfer of color graphics is slow).
- atomic level images obtained by scanning tunnelling microscopy at the IBM Almaden Research Centre.
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the calculated s, p, d, f and g orbitals by Jim Holler at the University of Kentucky.
- tutorial/help sites such as
- professional sites such as
- extensive index sites such as
- Links for Chemists at the University of Liverpool (suggested by Michael Barker).
- a collection of Curiosities maintained by Knut Irgum ( Analytical Chemistry,
Umeå University, S-901 87 Umeå, Sweden ) including pointers to topics such as
- an "Intro to Alchemy".
- the Skeptics Society and Skeptic magazine "which investigates claims by
scientists, pseudoscientists, and pseudohistorians on a wide variety of theories
and conjectures".
- the T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project, a series of experiments "conducted to determine
the properties of that incredible food, the Twinkie" (best viewed with a color monitor).
- a patented cure for the Common Cold.
- the "Chemistry Index" by Rolf Claessen.
- on-line references such as
- Scientific American.
- Elemental Discoveries which contains excellent general articles such as Happiness and Dopamine. This is an on-line journal by David Bradley.
- the Journal of Scientific Exploration which was established in 1987 to provide a peer-reviewed forum for "scholarly discussion of anomalies and topics outside the established disciplines of mainstream science, such as psychic phenomena, UFO's, etc. Evidence both for and against is presented." A recent article in the on-line journal is "Some Bodily Malformations Attributed to Previous Lives".
- miscellaneous items such as
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Last revised Oct 4, 2011.
Links checked Oct 4, 2011.