Dictionaries and Encyclopedias (Web)
: Restricted to UT-Austin
: Recommended
- Acronym Finder (Wiley)
- Acronyms and Abbreviations Database (Indiana U.)
- Chemistry Add-in for Word
- A free add-on for Microsoft Word makes it easier to insert and modify chemical information and objects from within Word.
- Chemistry Dictionary for Word Processors
- Open-source add-on for your word processing internal dictionary contains over 100,000 chemical terms and improves your spell-check performance.
- Chemistry : foundations and applications. (Gale Virtual Reference)
- Dictionary of Chemistry (Oxford Reference Online)
- Dictionary of Obsolete Chemical Terms
- Glossary of Archaic Chemical Terms
- Glossary of Physical Organic Chemistry Terms (IUPAC)
- IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology
- Online version of the IUPAC "Gold Book". For other IUPAC "color books" see the General Chemistry pathfinder.
- Kirk Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
- Full text access to the online edition of this well-known reference source. Updated regularly, this authoritative encyclopedia covers many aspects of chemical and process engineering, chemical industry and economics, materials science, biotechnology, and more. It is searchable by keywords, chemical names and CAS registry numbers, patent numbers, authors and affiliations.
Printed general science and chemistry encyclopedias are listed on the
General Chemistry pathfinder.
Many more specialized encyclopedias and dictionaries are listed on our various
subject guides -- including
Analytical,
Inorganic,
Organic,
Polymers & Plastics,
Spectra, etc.