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Chemistry for Everyone
Musical Chemistry: Integrating Chemistry and Music
A Nine-Part Tutorial for Generating Music from Chemical Processes
Mahadev Kumbar
Department of Chemistry, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY 11530
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December 2007
Vol. 84 No. 12
p. 1933
Abstract
This paper synopsizes a series of nine tutorials investigating how various chemical processes can be shown to have musical aspects. Both chemistry and music share a common language: mathematics. Interesting music can be created as chemical reactions—mediated by instrumentation and mathematics (e.g., spectrometry and discrete Fourier transformation)—yield data that can be combined with principles of music theory to produce sounds. Sound files resulting from converting data to musical notation are then playable and manipulable on the computer; the sound data can also be represented on musical staves and played on musical instruments. A musical form of the periodic table of elements is provided, as well as supplemental sound files and text documents for each of the nine tutorials.
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Detailed explanatory texts and sound files for each of the nine tutorials are available.
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Folder JCE2007p1933W containing nine Musical Chemistry sub-folders, each with Microsoft Word, PDF, and MP3 sound files.
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Citation
Kumbar, Mahadev. J. Chem. Educ. 2007, 84, 1933.
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Keywords
Atomic Properties / Structure; Collaborative / Cooperative Learning; Computational Chemistry; Computer-Based Learning; Fourier Transform Techniques; General Public; Graduate Education / Research; Hydrogen; Interdisciplinary / Multidisciplinary; Kinetics; Learning Theories; Mathematics / Symbolic Mathematics; Physical Chemistry; Radon; Rate Law; Reactions; Theoretical Chemistry; Upper-Division Undergraduate
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10/25/2007
10/31/2007
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