The Chemistry of Baking and Bread

May 22nd, 2009 § 0

For our yearly state chemistry Olympics, we are assigned a topic for website development. This years topics was Bread and the chemistry behind baking bread, since the competition is over its safe to say that i can post my submission. Enjoy!

Note: The information is all accurate and up to date as of 5/2/09

URL: http://lab.scorpiious.net/breadchem

Any comments and suggestions are welcome.

Chemical Nomenclature Prep Application

April 14th, 2009 § 0

So recently my chemistry professor and i have decided to build a small program that would allow chemistry students to test their chemical naming knowledge. The system tests both organic and inorganic substances, provides questions using images, equations and of course chemical compounds.

Technically speaking, the system had to be “refresh-free” and feel like a desktop application of some sort. So i had a few options, one was to use Ajax and PHP, and the other was to use adobe AIR. Myself, I’m a PHP developer so i went with the traditional ajax/php combo. The result came out pretty nice. We worked on revising it for about 2-3 weeks, changing both chemical and technical aspects. Although its a work that is still in development, the application itself can easily be used at its current state.

To help us try it out please head over to.

http://lab.scorpiious.net/chemquest

Username: student

Password: bergen

Enjoy!

Chemical Equation Formatter

April 14th, 2009 § 0

I was recently working on a project that required a chemical equation formatter for the WEB. So i decided to write one, and you guys can try it out here.

http://lab.scorpiious.net/chemistry

You can pretty much plug-in any chemical equation and it should convert all the superscripts and subscripts automatically for you. Enjoy! I might even release the source code soon.