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Handbooks

Full-text, searchable versions of many handbooks are available online to Stanford users at Knovel.com.

Several guides to handbooks are available to help you locate what database, website, or reference book contains physical property information that you need.

• ACD’s Interactive Web Laboratory
• Atomic and Molecular Data
• Atomic Spectra Database (NIST)
• Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry via Crossfire
• Biological Macromolecule Crystallization Database & NASA Archive for Protein Crystal Growth Data

• BioMagResBank (Data from NMR Spectroscopy on Proteins, Peptides, and Nucleic Acids)
• Chart of Nuclides (Brookhaven)
• Chart of the Nuclides 2004
• ChemFinder (Contains data of varying quality)
• CHEMnetbase
• Chemical & Physical Property Information Resources in the Chemistry Library (Duke University)

• CODATA Values for Thermodynamics
• Codex Alimentarius. Contains standards and methods of analysis for food.
• Combined Chemical Dictionary IN CHEMnetbase
• CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
• Crystal Lattice Structures
• Database of Macromolecular Movements

• Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds In CHEMnetbase
• The Dictionary of Substances and their Effects (DOSE) (Royal Society of Chemistry)
• DIPPR Chemical Database
• e-EROS: Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis
• ENGnetBASE (CRC Press)

• Environmental Fate Database
• Fiz-Chemie InfoTherm
• Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry via Crossfire
• Hazardous Substances Database (HSDB) in Toxnet
• Kaye & Laby Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants (16th ed, 1995)

• Landolt Börnstein Group IV — Physical Chemistry
• Lange’s Handbook Chemistry
• LIPIDAT: Lipid Thermotropic Phase Transitions
• Luxpop: Index of Refraction Values and Photonics Calculations
• MatWeb: The Online Materials Information Resource

• Materials Safety Data Sheets
• Merck Index on the Web
• NIST Atomic Spectra Databases
• NIST Ceramics WebBook
• NIST Chemistry WebBook

• NIST CKMech (Thermochemical and Chemical Kinetic Data for Fluorinated Hydrocarbons)
• NIST Data Gateway
• NIST Database for the Isotopic Composition of Selected Atmospheric Constituents
• NIST Database on Reinforcement Permeability Values
• NIST Physical Reference Data

• NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty
• NIST Thermophysical Properties of Fluid Systems: High accuracy data for a select group of fluids
• NIST X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Database
• Nuclear Data Center at Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI)
• Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Structure Index (NIST)

• Polymers: A Property Database In CHEMnetbase
• Properties of Organic Compounds In CHEMnetbase
• Protein Databank
• Reagent Chemicals, 9th ed. (Click on “Login for paid users”)
• Solvents

• SOURCE (Stanford Online Universal Resource for Clones and ESTs)
• Table of the Properties of 200 Linear Macromolecules and Small Molecules
• Tables of Nuclear Data (weight, spin/parity, abundance, half-life, resonance integral, etc.)
• ThermoDex: An Index of Selected Thermodynamic and Physical Property Resources

• Thermodynamic Data and Property Calculation Sites on the Web
• Thermodynamics of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions (NIST)
• Thermophysical Properties of Fluid Systems (NIST) High accuracy data for a select group of fluids.
• X-Ray Interactions with Matter

Guides to Handbooks

• Chemical and Physical Property Information Resources (from Duke Univ)
• Composite Index For CRC Handbooks. 3rd edition. Engineering Ref QD65 .C74 1991
• Finding Physical and Chemical Properties (from Vanderbilt Univ)
• Handbooks and Tables in Science and Technology. 3rd edition. Swain Ref Z 7405 .T3 P68 1994
• Index to Physical, Chemical, and Other Property Data (from Arizona State Univ)
• Knovel
• NIST Data Gateway
• Sources of Physical and Chemical Data (PDF, from CRC Handbook of Chem & Phys, 86th Edition, 2005–2006; access limited to SU)
• ThermoDex: An Index of Selected Thermodynamic and Physical Property Resources
• Thermodynamic Data and Property Calculation Sites on the Web

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