Chemical
calculator
The GChemCalc application is a simple
calculator for chemistry. It parses chemical formula to calculate raw formula,
molecular weights, mass composition and isotopic patterns.
You
can start GChemCalc in the
following ways:
Applications menu
>Choose Education ▸ Chemical calculator.
The GChemCalc window contains the
following elements:
Menubar
The
menus on the menubar contain all of the commands you need to work with GChemCalc.
Formula entry
This
is where you can type a formula.
Results
The
next three lines give the entered formula as parsed by GChemCalc, the raw formula and the
molecular weight.
Notebook
The
first page of the notebook gives the analysis as mass percent of the elements
of the current formula. The second page displays the isotopic pattern. This
page is hidden when the formula is empty.