This MedLibrary.org supplementary page on Wikipedia:Chemical infobox is provided directly from the open source Wikipedia as a service to our readers. Please see the note below on authorship of this content, as well as the Wikipedia usage guidelines. To search for other content from our encyclopedia supplement, please use the form below:
Related Sponsors
This page presents several chemical infoboxes to present chemical compound property data in a standardized form. They are to be used on all chemical articles, and as such are actively being used in the Chemicals WikiProject.
Contents |
Reliability of data
These tables are constructed by experts in the field of chemical sciences, as well as amateurs and may have been edited by less-knowledgeable passers-by or vandals. Although these tables are well designed, and useful to present the relevant chemical data, the accuracy of information they contain cannot be guaranteed. This also applies to the information in the Hazards section, which is provided for reference value only. When handling chemicals, always take the proper precautions as defined also by reliable sources of information, particularly Material safety data sheets supplied by the manufacturer and/or relevant government agency. Also see Wikipedia:General disclaimer.
All data as presented in these tables are for materials in their standard state, which is defined to be 25 °C and 100 kPa, unless other conditions are explicitly indicated.
Infobox styles
See: {{Chembox new}}
How to use these tables
These templates are for creating new infoboxes in wikipages which have no (current) infobox yet. The following steps indicate how to do this.
- 1. Edit the chemicals article to add the infobox to
- 2. Copy and paste one of the following three templates listed in {{Chembox new}}.
- 3. Fill in the details; empty fields are okay.
See What links here in the toolbox on this wikipage, and the Chemicals WikiProject worklist to find wikipages as examples of use.
NFPA diamond
The NFPA fire diamond is produced by the appropriate fields in the {{Chembox Hazards}} module:
NFPA-F = ? | NFPA-H = ? | NFPA-R = ? | NFPA-O = ?
F, H, R, O refer to flammability, health, reactivity, and others respectively. Replace "?" with the appropriate number or symbol.
Risk and safety statements
The raw codes for R-phrases and List of S-phrases do not mean much to most people. A set of templates has been created to ease the confusion, one template for each phrase. If one enters {{R45}} into the table cell, the displayed result is R45: holding the cursor over the link displays the meaning of the code.
Supplementary data page
If using the full Chembox, a supplementary page should be created as soon as time allows. This is most simply done by clicking on the red link in the table Supplementary data page, then type {{subst:Chembox supplement}}. Save the page, then edit to enter the information.
See also
- List of organic compounds
- List of inorganic compounds
- List of biomolecules
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemicals, and its current worklist
- Template:Chembox new
References
- Excel data/VBA table generator - the data for these tables
- SI Chemical Data Book (4th ed.), Gordon Aylward and Tristan Findlay, Jacaranda Wiley
- http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/
- http://www.crystran.co.uk/
- http://www.chemexper.com/
- http://chemfinder.cambridgesoft.com/
- WebElements.com
- EINECS (European INventory of Existing Commercial chemical Substances)
- Ratio International Corporation Crystal Structure Catalogue
- A. F. Wells, 'Structural Inorganic Chemistry, 5th ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 1984.
- N. N. Greenwood, A. Earnshaw, Chemistry of the Elements, 2nd ed., Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, UK, 1997.
- Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, CRC Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
- The Merck Index, 7th edition, Merck & Co, Rahway, New Jersey, USA, 1960.
Wikipedia content modification information:
- This page was last modified on 29 September 2008, at 20:40.
Wikipedia Authorship and Review
Wikipedia content provided here is not reviewed directly by MedLibrary.org. Wikipedia content is authored by an open community of volunteers and is not produced by or in any way affiliated with MedLibrary.org.
Wikipedia Usage Guidelines
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article on "Wikipedia:Chemical infobox".
The URL for this specific entry is:
All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details). Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.