About Chemicool
Chemicool was the brainchild of David D. Hsu. of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. The website went online in 1996 and since then we have been trying to help out anyone involved in chemistry.
The data for this site were acquired with help from the following people; a big thanks goes out to all of them: Cabrol D.; Moore J. W and Kotz J. C. Additionally, the Perkin-Elmer Periodic Table v2.02g was used for Atomic mass, density, volume, group, heat of fusion, heat of vaporization, specific heat, and shells.
More recently, we have been updating pages with images, YouTube chemistry clips and a lot more information.
Since the site's launch we have won some awards. "Ten Cool Sites" for Exploratorium Learning Studio's best in Science, Art, & K-12 sites would be our best achievement so far.
We are working hard to get more of these awards, so keep following our progress.
I hope you find Chemicool interesting and helpful.
Doug Stewart, Ph.D. (Physical Chemistry)
To Cite Chemicool
We've had many enquiries about the correct way to cite information from Chemicool, so here's how to do it.
1. For online linking to the homepage, please copy and paste one of the following:
<a href="//www.chemicool.com/">Chemicool Periodic Table</a>
or
<a href="//www.chemicool.com/">Periodic Table by Chemicool</a>
To cite this website in an academic document, or any written science report, please use the following MLA compliant citation:
Chemicool Periodic Table. <//www.chemicool.com/>.
2. For online linking to one of the individual pages, please use the following (for carbon) as an example:
<a href="//www.chemicool.com/elements/carbon.html">Carbon</a>or
<a href="//www.chemicool.com/elements/carbon.html">Carbon Element Facts</a>
To cite this website in an academic document, or any written science report, please use the following MLA compliant citation - again we've used the carbon page as an example. Replace carbon with the page you wish to cite:
"Carbon." Chemicool Periodic Table. <//www.chemicool.com/elements/carbon.html>.
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Human error will play a factor in the creation of any web site, and therefore inaccuracies do sometimes arise.
Considerable efforts are made to ensure there are as few errors as possible in the information on this site. In regards to copyright, most information on this website is copyrighted by the webmaster of Chemicool. The webmaster reserves their rights and therefore any breach of copyright in information in regards to this site is against the law and breaches intellectual property rights.