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Using LaTeX in WordPress

Chemistry

Saturday 5th March 2005

Filed under: — Steve @ 11:56 pm

Chemists do make use of \LaTeX but they have different typesetting conventions from mathematicians. For example the chemical \cf{H2O} is quite different from the mathematical H_2O . Martin Hensel’s mhchem package allows the easy typing of chemical symbols. Here are some examples taken from mhchem’s documentation. Needless to say, not being a chemist, they don’t mean much to me 🙂

Hover over, or click on a formula, to see the underlying latex code.

\cf{(NH4)2S}

\cf{^{227}_{90}Th+}

\cf{Fe`{III}[Fe`{III}Fe`{II}(CN)6]3}

\cf{2H+,{(aq)}}

\cf{[Cd\{SC(NH2)2\}2].[Cr(SCN)4(NH3)2]2}

\ce{SO4^2- + Ba^2+ -> BaSO4 v}

\ce{Zn^2+
<=>[\ce{+ 2OH-}][\ce{+ 2H+}]
{\underset{\text{amphoteres Hydroxid}}{\ce{Zn(OH)2 v}}} %group!
<=>[\ce{+ 2OH-}][\ce{+ 2H+}]
{\underset{\text{Hydroxozikat}}{\cf{[Zn(OH)4]^2-}}}% group!
}

\ce{{{x\,}} Na(NH4)HPO4 ->[\Delta]
(NaPO3)_{{x}} + {{x\,}} NH3 ^ + {{x\,}} H2O}

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  1. Nice and useful plugin, thanks for doing this 🙂

    Comment by Wirjo — Monday 14th March 2005 1:41 am #

  2. […] February 3, 2009 Productivity Tags: chemistry, LaTeX There is a LaTeX package called mhchem available that makes typesetting chemical equations a lot easier. Sure, you could be lazy and type […]

    Pingback by Chemistry with LaTeX — mhchem « revision — Monday 2nd February 2009 5:26 pm #

  3. But, how do I install the mhchem on my wordpress blog? Are there some instructions for newbies somwhere?

    Comment by Endeeder — Friday 22nd May 2009 5:50 pm #

  4. mhchem is included with most TeX distributions so all you need to do is add the package to the compilation. In class.latexrender.php after the line
    $string .= "\usepackage{amssymb}\n";
    add the line
    $string .= "\usepackage{mhchem}\n";

    Comment by Steve — Friday 22nd May 2009 6:08 pm #

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