Open-Access Chemistry Dictionary Available
Chemistry Dictionary for Word Processors
Text below is from Chemical & Engineering News > Science & Technology > Digital Briefs
February 2, 2009, Volume 87, Number 05, p. 32
“Chemists, chemistry students, and science writers, rejoice! The free Chemistry Dictionary for Word Processors v2.0 is now available for download at www.chemistry-blog.com/dictionary.
In early 2008, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, graduate student Adam Azman got tired of his word-processing program erroneously underlining ‘misspelled’ chemical names and terms in his documents. He didn’t want his ‘prolines’ converted to ‘pralines,’ and he didn’t want to overlook chemical names that were actually misspelled while speeding through the time-consuming spell-check process. So, Azman took matters into his own hands and created a custom chemistry dictionary containing some 18,000 words. The new and improved version 2, released at the end of 2008, now holds approximately 104,000 chemicals and chemistry terms—thanks to a lot of tedious work and a collaboration with Antony Williams, host of the open-access chemistry search engine and database ChemSpider. Azman’s custom dictionary, which does not overwrite other user-derived dictionaries, is compatible with both Microsoft Office and Open Office. Instructions for installing or upgrading the dictionary accompany the new version’s downloadable file. In response to Azman’s post announcing version 2 of the dictionary on ‘The Chemistry Blog,’ one blogger wrote, ‘Awesome! My thesis and I thank you very, very much.’”
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