This Web site from the American Chemical Society features an interactive Periodic Table with the use of Shockwave. The information presented is divided into three sections. In the first, Periodic Table, students will find attributes such as melting point and molar heat capacity for the elements. The second part illustrates the electron configurations of each of the elements, helping students to...

The American Chemical Society's (ACS) "Regional Industrial Innovation Awards Program celebrates the successful innovations of industrial chemists and chemical engineers that contribute to the health of their local and regional economy and the corporate leadership for its advancement of a healthy economy." The website illustrates the significance of a nomination and describes the criteria and...

Provided by the Visualization and Animation Laboratory at the Finnish IT Center for Science, the Chemist's Art Gallery contains "spectacular visualizations and animations in chemistry." The main page contains links to visualizations done at the laboratory as well as ones done at other locations. Examples of what the laboratory has been creating include Distributions of Counterions around DNA,...

ChemSpy.com is a wonderful resource for chemistry-related news and information. The site is frequently updated with important headlines and industry trends; other news stories are divided into several categories for easy browsing. One of the best features of ChemSpy.com is its vast collection of links to quality, offsite chemistry tutorials. The tutorials cover numerous topics and are appropriate...

The well known ChemWeb site (free after required registration) has launched their new webzine, the Alchemist. The Alchemist is a round up of current news stories with links to articles about each story. Users can also access research news, links to selected web sites, current topics being discussed on chemistry lists and newsgroups, and a conference diary. ChemWeb is maintained by two groups:...

Persons with a penchant for benzene rings, organic chemistry, and other related matters will find the Creative Chemistry a welcome addition to their references. The site collects hundreds of worksheets, teaching notes, and interactive quizzes for educators to use as they see fit. The site is maintained by Nigel Saunders, who has a biochemistry doctorate from the University of York, and includes...

The Department of Chemistry at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine provides the Molecular Modelling for Organic Chemistry Website. Molecular modelling is defined as a "technique for deriving, representing and manipulating the structures and reactions of molecules, and those properties that are dependent on these three dimensional structures." This site aims to help users learn...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) maintains the new NIST Data Gateway Web site. The Gateway provides easy access to NIST scientific and technical data that cover a broad range of substances and properties from many different scientific disciplines. Users can choose to search by keyword, property, or substance name and is completed within the dozens of NIST databases with...

After watching this erudite (and fun) program from NOVA, you'll never again wonder "Where's selenium?" This two-hour program is hosted by David Pogue (the host of NOVA's "Making Stuff" program) and it "spins viewers through the world of weird, extreme chemistry: the strongest acids, the deadliest poisons, the universe's most abundant elements, and the rarest of the rare." It's a fascinating way to...

The Catalyst is a Web site dedicated to providing online chemistry resources for the secondary education teacher. The resource links page contains dozens of links organized by subject such as organic chemistry, periodic tables, history of chemistry, experiments, teaching, and supplies. Other highlights of the site include a teacher's forum, links to other high school chemistry pages, a question...