Questions tagged [mhchem]
mhchem is third-party extension for MathJax, for formatting chemical formulas and equations in particular on Chemistry Stack Exchange, via the \ce command. Read more here - mhchem.github.io/MathJax-mhchem/
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Does the rendering of the precipitation and gas symbols need improvement?
Doing some markup and noticed something that annoyed me. I wanted to indicate a precipitate or gas such as:
\begin{array}{ll}
\text{Markup} & \text{Displays}\\\hline
\text{\ce{AgCN v + KNO3}} &...
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Plus-minus sign messes with mhchem's \pu command
The following bug report has been fixed, here is screenshot of the question in its original state.
Explicit error values are usually given as an interval with $\pm$. When I try to typeset this with ...
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Poll: mhchem syntax for electron configuration
As the author of mhchem, I am considering to add electron configuration to \ce. I decided to give it a little bit spacing for readability: $\mathrm{[Kr]\mskip2mu4d^{...
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Green checkmark or red X with Mathjax/mhchem?
Is there a way to put a green check mark in the body of my text using MathJax/mhchem Syntax?
Or a red X to indicate that this thinking is wrong?
Something like this:
I want to use it while double ...
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Dimensional analysis with chemistry equations on stack exchange?
I know we use Mathjax/mhchem.
What I would like to know, is if its possible to cross out units as part of dimensional analysis.
Here is an example of the desirable effect:
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Mhchem feature request: strikethrough and crossout reaction arrows
mhchem is a great $\mathrm{\LaTeX}$ and MathJax package and I don’t know what we would do without it. Especially its way to format reaction equations is great.
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What happened to writing ions with \ce?
I took a look at some old questions and noticed that some \ce{} expressions were not working as they should. I am especially interested in how to write polyatomic ...
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Mhchem broken on mobile
That's how it looks right now. I don't recall this being a problem earlier. It's like this on other questions as well.
Link to the answer in question: https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/a/55285/...
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Where to offer mhchem support?
I am about to finalize the MathJax/mhchem 3.0.0 (which is quite a large update). To my knowledge, the largest user group can be found here. Would you mind if I put a link in the documentation to meta....
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Unknown Notations
Are the following notations official? Can I find them in a colored IUPAC book? Do they have a name, I could google for? (I need this to judge whether to support this with mhchem or not.)
Stability of ...
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Is HTML banished?
Sorry if the question was already discussed, but it’s IMHO unlikely, given (mhchem) tag without a wiki.
I’m new here, as a post writer. Today I saw my post edited by a high-rep user. The main intent ...
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How to solve mhchem/MathJax rendering problems
Edit: This is not a bug, it is a feature, see my answer post.
While recently directing a new user to this meta post about formatting using MathJax, I noticed that some components were not rendering ...
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Formulae with charge and number of atoms (e.g. sulfate ion) aren't displayed properly
I just noticed that there is a problem when using mhchem to display structures such as sulfate's. According to its manual, they should appear as
But using ...
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Chemical formulas with fractional numbers are displayed wrongly
According to mhchem manual the following code
\ce{0.5H2O}
should produce the following result
But it does not. Instead, I ...
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'ce' prepended to equations in url slug?
I asked a question, titled https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/636/reactions-of-metals-with-cehcl-ceh2so4-cehno3, and noticed that the formulas had 'ce' prepended to them in the url: ...
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