{"id":2965,"date":"2009-05-18T21:46:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T01:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=2965"},"modified":"2009-05-18T21:46:31","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T01:46:31","slug":"common-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/common-chemistry.html","title":{"rendered":"Common Chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonchemistry.org\/\"><strong>Common Chemistry<\/strong><\/a> is a resource from Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) which allows one to search for chemical information using a variety of search terms, whether the terms be common names (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonchemistry.org\/ChemicalDetail.aspx?ref=50-78-2&amp;terms=aspirin\">aspirin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonchemistry.org\/ChemicalDetail.aspx?ref=7647-14-5&amp;terms=table+salt\">table salt<\/a><\/em>), basic chemical names (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonchemistry.org\/ChemicalDetail.aspx?ref=50-78-2&amp;terms=acetylsalicylic+acid\">acetylsalicylic acid<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonchemistry.org\/search.aspx?terms=sodium+chloride\">sodium chloride<\/a><\/em>), or even the official CAS registration number (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonchemistry.org\/ChemicalDetail.aspx?ref=50-78-2\">50-78-2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonchemistry.org\/ChemicalDetail.aspx?ref=7647-14-5\">7647-14-5<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Although this does not search the entire CAS database, it is an excellent starting point for most of the chemical information questions posed students and the general public.<\/p>\n<p>Note the link to the Wikipedia entry (just above the disclaimer) for many, but not all, results; not many &#8220;authoritative&#8221; resources are confident enough in their users to connect them with resources developed and maintained by the crowd.<\/p>\n<p><em>found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.resourceshelf.com\/2009\/05\/18\/cas-launches-free-web-based-resource-common-chemistry-for-general-public\/\">ResourceShelf<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Common Chemistry is a resource from Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) which allows one to search for chemical information using a variety of search terms, whether the terms be common names (aspirin, table salt), basic chemical names (acetylsalicylic acid, sodium chloride), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/common-chemistry.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2943,2951,2965,2979],"tags":[4889,4545,4546,4888,4548,4547,3216,4890,3111],"class_list":["post-2965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries","category-online-databases","category-search","category-wiki","tag-basic-chemical-names","tag-chemical-abstracts-service","tag-chemical-information","tag-chemical-information-questions","tag-chemistry","tag-common-chemistry","tag-search-terms","tag-sodium-chloride","tag-wikipedia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-LP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}