Template:Nist

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Usage

This template produces a citation to the NIST Chemistry WebBook. All parameters are optional. By default, the template produces a generic citation to the WebBook:

Linstrom, Peter J.; Mallard, William G. (eds.); NIST Chemistry WebBook, NIST Standard Reference Database Number 69, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg (MD), http://webbook.nist.gov

To link to a specific substance, the id parameter needs to be supplied. An example using all available parameters is the following:

{{nist |name=Ammonium chloride |id=C12125029 |accessdate=2008 |mask=1F |units=CAL}}

Which renders as:

Ammonium chloride in Linstrom, Peter J.; Mallard, William G. (eds.); NIST Chemistry WebBook, NIST Standard Reference Database Number 69, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg (MD), http://webbook.nist.gov (retrieved 2008)

id: the NIST id for the substance (can be obtained from the URL).
name: the name of the substance, used for the link name. If not present, the ID will be used as a name.
accessdate: this can be useful because the WebBook could change as data is updated.
units: either CAL (for calorie-based units) or SI. The default is SI.
mask: this can be obtained from the URL and determines which sort of data is displayed. The current meaning of this field is a hexadecimal number resulting from the sum of the following bits:

1    Gas phase thermochemical data
2    Condensed phase thermochemistry data
4    Phase change data
8    Reaction thermochemistry data
20   Gas phase ion energetics data
40   Ion clustering data
80   IR Spectrum
200  Mass spectrum (electron ionization)
800  Vibrational and/or electronic energy levels
2000 Gas Chromatography

so a way of including just about everything would be to use a mask value of FFFF.

Note: There is always a risk that NIST may change the structure of the website and the query parameters. But at least using a template instead of just using a URL ensures that the links from Wikipedia are centralized and hopefully easier to fix.

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