Prev. Article Next Article Table of Contents

Article

Exponenial Notation

Citing Articles

Your current credentials do not allow retrieval of the full text.

Purchase the full-text

PDF/HTML,
figures/images,
references and tables,
(where available)

Gavin D Peckham

Department of Chemistry, University of Zululand, Kwa Dlangezwa, 3886, South Africa

J. Chem. Educ., 1997, 74 (1), p 64

DOI: 10.1021/ed074p64

Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1997

Abstract

This article describes an efficient and effective method for writing numbers involving exponents. Numerous advantages of the proposed new notation are discussed and it is compared with the pH notation which is used to express hydrogen ion concentrations.

Keywords (Audience):

High School / Introductory Chemistry

Keywords (Subject):

Nomenclature / Units / Symbols

View: Hi-Res PDF | PDF w/ Links

Citing Articles

Citation data is made available by participants in CrossRef's Cited-by Linking service. For a more comprehensive list of citations to this article, users are encouraged to perform a search in SciFinder.

This article has been cited by 1 ACS Journal articles (1 most recent appear below).

SI for Chemists: Persistent Problems, Solid Solutions
Robert D. Freeman
Journal of Chemical Education2003 80 (1), 16
- SI for Chemists: Persistent Problems, Solid Solutions
  Robert D. Freeman
  Journal of Chemical Education2003 80 (1), 16
  For chemists there are two persistent difficulties with SI, difficulties that lie at the heart of chemical logic and are notably non-trivial; they are unit(s) of mass and "amount of substance". These difficulties are analyzed and solutions proposed.
  Abstract | Hi-Res PDF | PDF w/ Links