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Chemistry : foundations and applications. (Gale Virtual Reference) U.T. restricted

Kirk Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology U.T. restricted star
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.

Science of Synthesis U.T. restricted star
Search and view the full text of all published volumes of the 5th edition of this authoritative review series on organic synthesis methodologies, plus the entire full text of the completed 4th edition of Houben-Weyl Methoden der Organischen Chemie (1952-2003).

Wikipedia
This one is well known and very popular, so we list it here. But be careful about accepting everything you find there at face value -- it is created and edited by anonymous users.

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UT doesn't subscribe to many online science encyclopedias yet. But we have lots of authoritative print encyclopedias.
General science and chemistry encyclopedias in print are listed on the General Chemistry pathfinder.
Specialized encyclopedias are listed on our Subject Pathfinders -- including Analytical, Inorganic, Organic, Polymers & Plastics, Spectra, etc.


Dictionaries

Acronym Finder (Wiley)

Acronyms and Abbreviations Database (Indiana U.)

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.

Dictionary of Chemistry (Oxford Reference Online) U.T. restricted

Glossary of Archaic Chemical Terms

IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology
Online version of the IUPAC "Gold Book".