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By Martin / Other / Monday March 1st, 2010 / 1 comment
Wow, I never realised that the start of the could be so busy! Anyway, while I look for new interesting things to post, here is something that I made a while ago - a table of "everything" for chemistry measures, detailing their relations to the mole.
Update: Find this useful? Maybe you'd like part two of our series: a diagram of organic reaction pathways.
The instructions are on the A4 document, but you basically just follow the symbols of one colour around the semi-triangular table, counting the thick lines as "equals" and the thin ones as "multiply". So, if we want to find out the relationship between mass (m) and moles (n), we just look at pink, and following it around get m = M × n. Similarily, for the ideal gas law, we look at light blue, and get V × P = n × R × T. Simple, eh?
The table itself can be found here: http://lab.aspektas.com/table_of_everything.pdf. Find it confusing? Have a suggestion? Then post a comment, and I'll see what I can come up with (though it's a while since I gave up chemistry)!
Note: this table is primarily intended as a revision tool for High School chemistry students, particularly those studying the Victoria, Australian VCE Chemistry 3/4 syllabus.
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1 comment
boen_robot Damn! Where was that when I studied chemistry (3 years ago and beyond)?!? :D
I completed it with 3 (that's the system where 2 is worst, and 6 is best). With this, maybe I could've completed it with 4 instead.
I find it hard to read forumlas encoded in the corners. From your second sample, I realized that between R and N, there's "×", but I woudn't know that otherwise.
Maybe if you made this a circled table with "n" in the center, and everything else around it?