bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt) (10/13/90)
I'd be interested in hearing about collections of machine-readable chemistry data. PD preferred, but its nice to hear about other sources too. The main thing I'd like at the moment are basic information about elements: Average weight, number of isotopes, weight & abundance of each isotope, etc. Other nifty data includes ionic/covalent/van der Waals radii, etc. Obviously much of this stuff is available in print (CRC, for example), but I'm wondering if anyone has it in machine-readable form. And of course everything should come from verifiable sources in the literature (hopefully references would be provided?). Since I suspect there might be wider interest, I don't want to restrict myself to only the above data -- email me about any collections of chemical data of which you are aware and I will collect & summarize in sci.chem. Thanks in advance. -- David Bernholdt bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu Quantum Theory Project bernhold@ufpine.bitnet University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 904/392 6365
whitbeck@unssun.nevada.edu (Michael Whitbeck) (10/14/90)
Check comp.sources.misc. There you'll find a periodic table program with some of the data mentioned. The program draws a periodic table on the screen (using curses/termcap) and alows the user to interogate wrt ionization, year-of-discovery, mp, etc. mikew@wheeler.wrc.unr.edu @wheeler.UUCP etc. these opinions are mine- my employer has none
mjd@central.cis.upenn.edu (Mark-Jason Dominus) (10/18/90)
Heh. You can find name, number, symbol, and atomic weight in /usr/games/lib/quiz.k/elements on nearly any kind of UNIX system. For a while I had the YP (pardon me--`NIS') service on our suns serving this information. -- In some sense a stochastic process can do better; at least it has a chance. Mark-Jason Dominus mjd@central.cis.upenn.edu