Re: S/W: Periodic Table Browser

[Kyle Burton <mortis@voicenet.com>]

How would you store the data?  It's not a flat type of heirarchy...it's
not even like a grid.  I'm no chemist, but if you have 3Xs 4Ys and 3Zs, 
isn't it possible that you might have 2, or more different compounds
that contain the same number/type of elements, but just with a different
structure?  Therefore different compunds?  I am not just referring to
the right/left handed types of molecules, but am imagining wholly different
chemicals.


does this make sense?

god that could be alot of data...


k

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On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Michael A Hamblin wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Doug Loss wrote:
> 
> > Done and done.  I emailed all of them inviting them to join the list,
> > and mentioned the idea about clicking on multiple elements to bring up
> > compounds.  You know, that could rapidly get unwieldy when you get into
> > organic chemicals.
> 
> Ahhh but think of the fun you can have debugging it! :)
> 
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