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How to Actually Use the 107 Chem+ Calculators (A Practical Walkthrough)
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How to Actually Use the 107 Chem+ Calculators (A Practical Walkthrough)

No submit-button anxiety, no spreadsheet formulas to memorize. Here's exactly how the Chem+ calculators work, from the moment you open one to dropping the answer into a report.

Chem+ Team · August 12, 2026 · 7 min read
The 107 Calculators, Answered: 10 Questions Chemists Actually Ask
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The 107 Calculators, Answered: 10 Questions Chemists Actually Ask

Are they free? Accurate? Do they show the formula? Can I export results? Ten straight answers to the ten questions we hear most about the Chem+ calculator library.

Chem+ Team · August 11, 2026 · 6 min read
Which Analyses Rely on the Chem+ Calculators? From Water Testing to Titration
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Which Analyses Rely on the Chem+ Calculators? From Water Testing to Titration

Map the calculators to the real analytical workflows they support — water quality, solution prep, acid-base titration, gas measurements, and the quantitative backbone of physical chemistry.

Chem+ Team · August 11, 2026 · 7 min read
What Are the 107 Calculators Actually For? Real Jobs They Do
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What Are the 107 Calculators Actually For? Real Jobs They Do

A calculator library is only as good as the problems it solves. Here's what the 107 Chem+ calculators are genuinely used for — by students, QC analysts, and researchers alike.

Chem+ Team · August 11, 2026 · 7 min read
Introducing ChemPlus Business: Lab Operations, Traceable and Audit-Ready
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Introducing ChemPlus Business: Lab Operations, Traceable and Audit-Ready

Sample tracking, Certificates of Analysis, inventory, SDS, SOPs, an audit trail with e-signatures, and more — everything a working lab needs to move off spreadsheets, in one platform.

Chem+ Team · August 10, 2026 · 6 min read
A Tour of Chem+'s 107 Chemistry Calculators
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A Tour of Chem+'s 107 Chemistry Calculators

From stoichiometry to thermodynamics, here's a guided tour of the calculator library — 107 tools, organized by the chemistry you actually do, with the core set free on every account.

Chem+ Team · August 9, 2026 · 6 min read
How Research Teams Use Chem+ to Move Faster
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How Research Teams Use Chem+ to Move Faster

From the Research Agent to team management and an admin dashboard, here's what changes when a whole research group — not just one person — works in Chem+.

Chem+ Team · July 30, 2026 · 5 min read
Audit-Ready by Default: The Business Audit Trail and E-Signatures
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Audit-Ready by Default: The Business Audit Trail and E-Signatures

Who approved this, and when? With the Audit Trail module, that answer is a lookup — every change, approval, and e-signature is recorded automatically.

Chem+ Team · July 24, 2026 · 4 min read
How to Generate a Certificate of Analysis in Minutes
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How to Generate a Certificate of Analysis in Minutes

A step-by-step walkthrough of the CoA Reports module: turn a completed sample's results into a clean, standard-format certificate without rebuilding a template.

Chem+ Team · July 18, 2026 · 5 min read
Sample Tracking: A LIMS-Lite That Actually Gets Used
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Sample Tracking: A LIMS-Lite That Actually Gets Used

Full LIMS platforms are powerful and often overkill. Sample Tracking gives smaller labs the traceability they need without the implementation project.

Chem+ Team · July 14, 2026 · 5 min read
Introducing ChemDraw: Draw Molecular Structures in Seconds
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Introducing ChemDraw: Draw Molecular Structures in Seconds

Our structure editor lets you sketch compounds atom by atom, search a compound library, and export clean diagrams straight from your dashboard.

Chem+ Team · July 8, 2026 · 5 min read
5 Habits for Cleaner Chemistry Figures in Chem+
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5 Habits for Cleaner Chemistry Figures in Chem+

Five habits that consistently make chemistry figures look sharper and take less time to build.

Chem+ Team · July 1, 2026 · 5 min read
One Search, Five Databases: How Academic Search Works
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One Search, Five Databases: How Academic Search Works

Academic Search queries OpenAlex, Crossref, arXiv, Semantic Scholar, and Europe PMC at once — so a single query covers far more of the literature than any one of them alone.

Chem+ Team · June 20, 2026 · 5 min read
From Instrument to Report Without Retyping a Single Number
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From Instrument to Report Without Retyping a Single Number

Manual transcription is where quiet errors live. The Instrument Import module pulls instrument output into ChemPlus Business so a number never has to be keyed in twice.

Chem+ Team · June 17, 2026 · 4 min read
Why We Built Virtual Lab
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Why We Built Virtual Lab

Not every institution has lab time or equipment to spare. Virtual Lab gives students and researchers a safe place to test a procedure first.

Chem+ Team · June 15, 2026 · 4 min read
Tracking Shelf Life: The Stability Studies Module
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Tracking Shelf Life: The Stability Studies Module

Shelf-life claims should rest on data, not guesses. Stability Studies tracks your studies against a timeline so expiry decisions are defensible.

Chem+ Team · June 11, 2026 · 4 min read
See Molecules in 3D with Miew
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See Molecules in 3D with Miew

The Miew 3D module gives you a real, rotatable molecular structure viewer, powered by EPAM's open-source Miew engine.

Chem+ Team · June 5, 2026 · 4 min read
The Interactive Periodic Table: 118 Elements, One Click Away
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The Interactive Periodic Table: 118 Elements, One Click Away

More than a wall chart — the interactive periodic table puts all 118 elements and their properties a click away, right next to the tools that use them.

Chem+ Team · June 1, 2026 · 4 min read
Ditch the Paper: Getting Started with the Digital Lab Notebook
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Ditch the Paper: Getting Started with the Digital Lab Notebook

A searchable, organized record of every experiment beats a stack of paper notebooks. Here's how to set up the Digital Lab Notebook in five minutes.

Chem+ Team · May 28, 2026 · 4 min read
Build Your First Publication Figure: Structure to Export, End to End
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Build Your First Publication Figure: Structure to Export, End to End

A complete walkthrough — search a structure in ChemDraw, check it in 3D, arrange it on the Canvas, and export a clean, publication-ready file.

Chem+ Team · May 22, 2026 · 6 min read
Free, Pro, Team, or Business: Which Chem+ Plan Fits You
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Free, Pro, Team, or Business: Which Chem+ Plan Fits You

A plain-language guide to the four ways to use Chem+ — what each unlocks, who it's for, and what it costs — so you can pick without guessing.

Chem+ Team · May 18, 2026 · 6 min read

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