Save the document as a dictionary file with a novel file name. With the dictionary file open, select “Save As.” One of the “File Type” options to which the file can be saved is a custom dictionary file. Here is a useful workaround:Open the dictionary file through Microsoft Word (open Word, then goto Open File and change the file type to All Files). Several people have emailed me saying they are experiencing some problems integrating the dictionary file with Microsoft Word on a Mac.
(Thanks, Mitch) I’ll review it and consider it for the next upgrade. If you notice a word not in the dictionary that you’d like to see added, you can enter below it in the form that Mitch made for me.
If you have comments, questions, or suggestions, you can leave them in the comments or email me at chemdictionary – at – gmail – dot – com. Now, I can’t guarantee that the dictionary is perfect. It will probably be most useful for organic chemists. Thus, the dictionary was created from an organic chemist’s mindset. The dictionary should be useful for all chemists.
The install file includes instructions for upgrading old versions and installing it for the first time. The dictionary is compatible for Microsoft Office (Windows or Mac), and Open Office (Windows or Linux).
This upgrade bumps the dictionary from 18,000 words to ~104,000 words.Īdministrivia: The dictionary is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. The 1.3 million identifiers were distilled down to around 102,000 additional words for the dictionary file ( read more on that process here).
Click here to download the zipped chemistry dictionary file (V3.0). It took me a while, but the upgrade is complete and ready for release. I met with him one afternoon in February, and he agreed to release his database of 1.3 million identifiers for me to integrate into the next upgrade. Through David, I was introduced to Antony Williams from. The dictionary was relatively small, containing some 18,000 words. I finished it up at the beginning of February (2008), and it was hosted at Sciencebase with thanks to David Bradley ( read the post regarding the original release). So I set out to create my own chemistry dictionary. I found several scientific spell check programs, but they are all for-pay versions.
I wanted to download a free “custom dictionary” to upload to my word processor to recognize all the words that were correctly spelled, but not recognized by the standard dictionary.
Thus, all technical words come back as misspelled whether or not they actually are misspelled.Īround this time last year (end of 2007), I was looking for a solution to this problem. Two, the standard spell checker cannot differentiate between correctly-spelled technical words and misspelled technical words. One, I tend to gloss over the many, many squiggly red lines and therefore not notice actual spelling errors that have been made. This is problematic for at least two reasons. They’re not really errors, of course, just technical words that Microsoft’s standard dictionary doesn’t include.
Original December 17, 2008, post follows:Īs anyone who’s written a paper for chemistry class or journal publication knows, spelling “errors” quickly become so numerous that you just ignore them. ?ġ/19/11: Reader Catie has forwarded a biology/medical dictionary that is also free and fully compatible with the chemistry dictionary or other custom dictionaries. You may also be interested in our Reagent Table Calculator Widgets. readers! After you download the dictionary, feel free to browse to the front page and have a look around. Download the Chemistry Dictionary(V3.0) hereġ/13/12: Welcome J.