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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> ResourceShelf<br>
<b>Posted on:</b> Monday, May 18, 2009 1:43 PM<br>
<b>Author:</b> resourceshelf<br>
<b>Subject:</b> CAS Launches Free Web-Based Resource “Common Chemistry” for
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<p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.cas.org/newsevents/releases/commonchemistry051209.html"><strong><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From the News Release:</span></strong></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Chemical Abstracts
Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society and the most
comprehensive and authoritative source of chemical information, has launched
a new, free, web-based resource called <a
href="http://www.commonchemistry.org/">Common Chemistry</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>This resource is helpful
to non-chemists and others who might know either a chemical name or a CAS
Registry Number of a common everyday chemical and want to pair both pieces of
information. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.commonchemistry.org/">Common Chemistry</a> contains
approximately 7800 chemicals of widespread and general interest, as well as
all 118 elements from the periodic table. With the exception of some of the
elements, all other substances in this collection were deemed of widespread
interest by having been cited 1000 or more times in the CAS databases.
Examples of substances in Common Chemistry include widely recognizable ones
such as caffeine, benzoyl peroxide (acne treatment), and sodium chloride
(table salt).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>“Anyone can easily search
by CAS Registry Number or chemical name and confirm the substance details,
such as the CAS Registry Number, chemical names or synonyms, molecular
formula, chemical structure, and a reciprocal Wikipedia link when available,”
said Christine McCue, CAS Vice President, Marketing. “Visitors also have the
ability to bookmark the page using social media tools, such as Delicious and
Digg.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>While not intended to be
a comprehensive CAS Registry Number (CAS RN) lookup service, <a
href="http://www.commonchemistry.org/">Common Chemistry</a> does provide
access to information on chemicals of general interest. The CAS Registry
Number is recognized throughout the world as the most commonly used, unique
identifier of chemical substances. The full CAS REGISTRY database contains
more than 46 million organic and inorganic substances. Research discovery and
patent tools such as SciFinder and STN allow users to search the entire
database.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Source: Chemical
Abstracts Service<br>
Hat Tip: P.W. & <a href="http://InfoToday.com">InfoToday</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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