Topsite of the month

In this spot ChemLin will introduce two Internet pages monthly (one each from the scientific/ didactic and from the commercial field) which made a special impression with regard to quality and information content. You can find the topsite December in this spot from December 15, 2002.

 
 November 2002:

The "Non-Chemists" among us rudimentary remember school chemistry; or they know : "Chemistry is when it stinks and bangs". The last quoted popular wisdom especially indicates the particular meaning of chemical experiments in chemistry didactics.

Dr. Peter Haupt (Didactics of chemistry, University of Oldenburg), Dr. Hartwig Möllenkamp (Albert-Einstein-School  in Schwalbach) and others have compiled a collection of experiment instructions on the Internet page "chemieexperimente.de" especially for teachers of chemistry, who for the first time conduct experiments themselves. A corresponding concept shall enable the experimenter to get a quick summary of the course of the experiment.

The individual experiment instructions are combined in interrelated topics; the methodical and didactic concept extensively follows the special systematic guideline.

All in all the authors have created a clear and burden-free medium with this page which informs quickly and clearly about reliably workable experiment instructions on special interrelated topics and demonstrates especially the obligatory safety aspects of the chemical experiments.

Not only chemicals are essential for the practical work in the lab – at least as important are informations about the used substances.

The company Merck in Darmstadt is probably the most well-knonw chemicals producer in the German-speaking area. With ChemDat Merck has created a very effective and extensive Online data base for the practical work which make a retrieval of detiled information s about all common chemicals possible: From the chemical properties to safety and work instructions and waste disposal here you can find all important informations.

The offer is completed by various services like the graphical structural formula search (the use of an online formula editor provides the sought after substance), lab tools (tables for the lab), lab glossary, safety data sheet glossary, Know-how data base, Merck Synopsis online (a compilation of pharmaceutical raw materials of the medicine books) and others.

We were also convinced by the user-friendly navigation structure. Therefore we recommend ChemDat as topsite November as an extensive information source for the practical work in the laboratory.

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