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BioMed Central All original research articles published by BioMed Central are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication.
Bishop's University Department of Chemistry
IUPAC Gold Book Compendium of chemical terminology from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
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NIST Chemistry WebBook This site provides thermochemical, thermophysical, and ion energetics data compiled by NIST under the Standard Reference Data Program.
PubMed A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to 1948.
Theses Canada Portal Canadian theses and dissertations.
WebElements The periodic table on the web.
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