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Handbooks
Full-text, searchable versions of many handbooks are available online to Stanford users at
Knovel.com.
Several
guides to handbooks
are available to help you locate what database, website, or reference
book contains physical property information that you need.
- Advanced THermal Analysis System (ATHAS) Data Bank
- Atomic and Molecular Data
- Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry via Crossfire

- Biological Macromolecule Crystallization Database & NASA Archive for Protein Crystal Growth Data
- BioMagResBank (Data from NMR Spectroscopy on Proteins, Peptides, and Nucleic Acids)
- Chart of Nuclides (Brookhaven)
- Chart of the Nuclides 2004
- ChemFinder (Contains data of varying quality)
- CHEMnetBASE

- Chemical and Physical Property Information Resources (from Duke Univ)
- CODATA Values for Thermodynamics
- Codex Alimentarius. Contains standards and methods of analysis for food.
- Combined Chemical Dictionary in CHEMnetBASE

- CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

- Crystal Lattice Structures
- Database of Macromolecular Movements
- Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds in CHEMnetBASE

- The Dictionary of Substances and their Effects (DOSE) (Royal Society of Chemistry)

- e-EROS: Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis

- ENGnetBASE (CRC Press)

- Environmental Fate Database
- Fiz-Chemie InfoTherm

- Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry via Crossfire

- Hazardous Substances Database (HSDB) in Toxnet
- Kaye & Laby Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants (16th ed, 1995)
- Landolt Börnstein Group IV — Physical Chemistry
- Lange’s Handbook of Chemistry
- LIPIDAT: Lipid Thermotropic Phase Transitions
- Luxpop: Index of Refraction Values and Photonics Calculations
- MatWeb: The Online Materials Information Resource
- Materials Safety Data Sheets

- Merck Index on the Web

- NIST Atomic Spectra Database
- NIST Ceramics WebBook
- NIST Chemistry WebBook
- NIST Data Gateway
- NIST Detailed Chemical Kinetic Combustion Model Database
- NIST Physical Reference Data
- NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty
- NIST Thermophysical Properties of Fluid Systems: High accuracy data for a select group of fluids
- NIST X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Database
- Nuclear Data Center at Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI)
- Polymers: A Property Database in CHEMnetBASE

- Properties of Organic Compounds in CHEMnetBASE

- Protein Databank
- Reagent Chemicals, 9th ed. (Click on “Login for paid users”)

- Solvents
- SOURCE (Stanford Online Universal Resource for Clones and ESTs)
- SpringerMaterials

- Tables of Nuclear Data (weight, spin/parity, abundance, half-life, resonance integral, etc.)
- ThermoDex: An Index of Selected Thermodynamic and Physical Property Resources
- Thermodynamic Data and Property Calculation Sites on the Web
- Thermodynamics of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions (NIST)
- Thermophysical Properties of Fluid Systems (NIST) High accuracy data for a select group of fluids.
- X-Ray Interactions with Matter
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