Note: ChemBuddy is returning as a new program under a new name, Valence, with a new interface, improved robustness, and many bug-fixes.
ChemBuddy is an open-source chemical analysis program for students, chemists, and hobbyists alike. It performs many functions from various aspects of chemistry. It has gone in and out of development through the years, and a European firm is currently sharing the name for one of their chemical analysis products (mine is not to be confused with theirs, which I’m certain is far better—although not, last I checked, for Mac). Features include:
- Conversions: Heat, Mass, Moles, Pressure, Temperature, and Volume
- Gases: Boyle’s Law, Charles’ Law, Combined Gas Law, Gay-Lussac’s Law, and Ideal Gas Law
- Solutions: Concentration, Dilution, Molality, Molarity, Normality, Solubility, and Titration
- Miscellaneous: Stoichiometry
- A very pretty, if somewhat incomplete in its implementation, periodic table of the elements, with a basic table, a crystal-structures table, an electron-blocks table, a radioactivity table, and a basic states-of-matter table.
- More features are planned for future releases!
- Name: ChemBuddy
- Version: 1.1a7 (legacy)
- Last Modified: 2007-08-05
- Compatibility: Universal Binary; requires Mac OS X 10.4 (“Tiger”) or later
- License: BSD
Click here to visit the ChemBuddy project page on SourceForge.
