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Simple chemical calculations, even at the DOS prompt

J. A. Kiernan jkiernan at julian.uwo.ca
Tue Nov 29 10:54:31 EST 1994


  Do you ever need to do a quick molecular weight calculation from a
  chemical formula, or want to know how many grams of Na2SO4.10H2O
  are in 100 ml of a 0.076M solution? You can use MOLWT, a new shareware
  program, to get instant answers, even at the DOS command-line.

    MOLWT is a utility for simple chemical calculations

         There are already some excellent chemical calculation programs,
         including CHEMCALC.  MOLWT is not as versatile as these, but
         it is much faster for what it does do, and it needs only 50 KB of
         disk space (half of which is documentation).  It will run on any
         DOS-based computer.  Color is used for emphasis, but the screens
         are legible on any kind of monitor.

    Available by anonymous ftp from  oak.oakland.edu  in the
      /SimTel/msdos/chemstry directory. The file is molwt.zip.
      Dont forget to enter the "binary" command before downloading!

    The MOLWT.ZIP archive contains 3 files:
      MW.EXE calculates molecular weight from an entered chemical formula
        Can be used at the DOS command line, or interactively.
      SOLUTION.EXE gives concentrations in various units in response to
        an entered formula and concentration.  It works with MW.EXE
        Can be used at the DOS command line, or interactively.
      MOLWT.EXE is the documentation file, which can be read on screen
        or printed in whole or part.

   Comments and suggestions          John A. Kiernan
   welcome!                          Department of Anatomy
                                     Univ. of Western Ontario
                                     LONDON, Canada  N6A 5C1
                                     Phone: (519) 679-2111 e.6822
                                     e-mail: jkiernan at julian.uwo.ca





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