Projects/Edu/Kalzium

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    (this article is just a stub, made from what I remeber from KDE4 beta 2 version)

    Kalzium is a chemical database. The central feature is a mandeleïev table that can color elements folowing different rules such as

    • family
    • acidity
    • electro-negativity
    • discovery date
    • icon representing a use case (such as a zepelin for hydrogen)
    • and more

    Kalzium also features a sidebar showing more info about the element you point onto the table. If you click on, this bring a widow with detailed informations.

    It also comes with a unit converter and greek letters table.

    A glossary explains basics of some chemistry (this part you can help much without coding ) such as "what is a besher ?"

    A usefull tool in Kalzium will solve chemical equations. Feed it with a formulae such as " aO2+bH2->cH20 " and it replies "1.O2 + 2H2 -> 2.H2O ". This is also able to calculate with charges (ions)

    A beautiful feature of Kalzium is it's 3D molecule viewer. Load a molecule file and look at it's 3D representation in different modes (stics, stics and balls, --- and --- ).

    An other tool wich may be handy is a chemical file converter based on openbabel.