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When facing chemical equilibrium problems of the type
it is often useful to construct logarithmic concentration versus pH diagrams to illustrate how the concentrations of the ions are dependant of the pH-value.
The theory behind the diagram is not too complicated and the construction is straightforward. However, generating nice looking diagrams can be time-consuming and tedious and therefore I wanted to share my excel template for generating dibasic log concentration – pH diagrams.
After many requests I decided to make available a simple template for creating nice-looking histograms in Excel. I this downloadable file the user can easily paste his/her own data and instantly get a nicely formatted histogram, with correctly calculated bins (Scott’s choice).
No need to bother with complicated field formulas and tedious chart formatting – that is already done for you!
Due to quite a few requests I have completed a template for Excel 2007 to quickly allow the user to create a nice looking box plot. The template can be downloaded and used right away, by simply pasting your values into the worksheet and everything else will be done for you.
Only edit cells with green text to avoid breaking any formulas and functionality.
Xpath is apowerful method available in php to select specific elemts in the DOM structure of any xml document, and also html document. The code below can be used for example to check for back links, in a robust way. The code below allows for back links to any page or subpage on your domain, but can easily be changed to be more discriminating. Continue Reading »