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Sizing for images
If you post to Imgur (the default host for StackExchange) you can use URL suffix codes to change the size of the image in your answer or question:
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Units formatting
Units should always be upright, and be separated by value with a space. This can be achieved best in MathJax with the sequence ...
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How do I draw chemical compounds and chemical reaction mechanisms and add it to my questions?
There are quite alot of chemical structure and mechanism drawing tools out there, but I would prefer using the online sketcher provided by ChemDoodle, due to the fact that it's completely online-based,...
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Overview and Quicklinks
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Units formatting
Use mhchem for MathJax to format chemical expressions
Sizing for images
Grammar, spelling, and style
Compose ...
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Be judicious when editing questions that are [on hold] or [closed].
Editing posts bumps them back to the top of the main page. Only edit closed questions that you think you can improve them to the ...
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Compose good titles and headings
Clean, descriptive titles improve searching.
Martin mentioned it in a comment, but I will summarize here. Good titles help make questions about chemistry experiments,...
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What do I need to know about tagging?
How to find out if a tag is good to have/make
I present to you, the MAR Tag Test™ (abbreviated as MATT), a short test with three possible responses to each question, designed as a crude way of ...
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How to write physical units
Instead of \mathrm many people misused \ce, because it was shorter to type. Seeing this, the author of ...
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Use mhchem for MathJax to format chemical expressions
(For people out there who don’t know this … yet.)
We have the wonderful mhchem package which comes with the ...
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Don't let the broad tag be
Tags help define categories for questions and thus they make searching easier. Occasionally I see posts — from relatively new users especially — that contain ...
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Use display style maths wherever possible
Inline maths mode should be only used for short introductions of terms, a sum formula of a compound. For more complex terms, like fractions or sums, it ...
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Need help! I got banned from chemistry stack exchange
As I mentioned in a comment (which I've now deleted): I'm afraid none of us can 'unban' you. It's a system ban, it's not somebody who personally chose to impose a ban on you. Please see: What can I do ...
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Text and spaces in MathJax
Trying to put a short phrase in your MathJax, but your spaces keep disappearing?
There are a few ways to explicitly insert spaces. For a short phrase it is best to use the ...
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Comprehensive editing
I’d like to add another issue that I see not happening way too often:
When editing for any of the other points, do a simple check of the text and the MathJax involved, too.
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How to render Angstrom and Parts-per notations in MathJax?
For Angstroms, check out: What additional formatting features are available to MathJax (possibly via \require{})?
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The $\ce{C-O}$ bond length in carbon dioxide is $\pu{1.16 ...
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What's the difference between "flagging → duplicate" and "flagging → should be closed → duplicate of..."?
There is no difference between the two options.
(See New flagging dialog has a duplicate for duplicate on Meta Stack Exchange)
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Why has my account been restricted?
Unfortunately, there is no real answer we can give that is not already found in the meta.SE link provided in the comments.
Diamond moderators are not privy to the internal workings of the automatic ...
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Allow small edits
No, unfortunately there isn't a way to get around this for users without the editing privilege (2000 rep). People have proposed this as a feature on Meta.StackExchange numerous times, but it's ...
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What additional formatting features are available to MathJax (possibly via \require{})?
As described in the MathJax documentation, any of the core MathJax extensions can be loaded this way (though this can be restricted via the MathJax configuration).
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What additional formatting features are available to MathJax (possibly via \require{})?
Command Grouping
Enable with: \require{begingroup}
Environment: \begingroup ... \endgroup
Quite a few things are possible ...
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I don't understand why I'm getting down votes on my question. I am new here please help
At this time, your question has three close votes as "too broad". This is probably because you've asked about more than one topic (pi bonding in coordination compounds and synergic bonds), and ...
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It seems I haven't received some deserved badges!
A score of 10 means "total upvotes minus total downvotes ≥ 10", not "earned you ≥ 10 reputation".
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Is there a way to proactively vote against closure?
Just going to rattle off a quick answer. There are a few ways. None of them will actively stop people from voting to close, but this is about as good as it gets.
Firstly, you can leave a comment, ...
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Regarding duplication of chemistry stackexchange content on other forums for money?
Well, every time you copy people's answers for your own benefit, a tiny piece of your own soul dies, so that might be sufficient punishment for these people (or at least part of the punishment). (I'm ...
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Why are my questions downvoted for no reason?
Disclaimer: I can't answer for everybody, it is a "feature" of Stack Exchange that upvotes and downvotes are personal.
On one hand I can empathise with you: it's good to have a natural ...
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What happened to writing ions with \ce?
This change was introduced with MathJax/mhchem v3.
That's because it is the recommended way of writing.
It is IUPAC's recommendation. Red Book section IR-4.3 shows examples, but is missing a clear ...
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What additional formatting features are available to MathJax (possibly via \require{})?
2-D Reaction Networks
Enable with: \require{AMScd}
Environment: \begin{CD} ... \end{CD}
Construct two-dimensional grids ...
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Where do I look for advice on computational chemistry software?
Thanks for asking here before posting. Unfortunately it's probably off-topic since it isn't exactly chemistry-related. In fact, it probably wouldn't go over well on any of the Stack Exchange sites (...
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