Aisle 7No. 113 of 460
Splashery
Molecule
199,992 small parts. Assembled in your browser.
Empty. Now look down.
Swipe across the pack to tear it open.
Press and hold. It pulls itself together.
Let go to drop it.
It stays in its pack here. The Playground has the rest.
Atoms · Built from a recipe
Molecule
A molecule is a group of atoms held together by chemical bonds.
Play with it in the Playground
How to play
Tap it to heat it up. Hands-on: pull an atom; its bonds stretch and it springs back.
Toy facts
- Item
- No. 113 of 460
- Shelf
- Aisle 7, Atoms
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Small parts
- 199,992
- Your own
- Your own molecule
- Sound
- Yes
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Batteries
- None
- Assembly
- It does that itself
- Licenses
- Public domain, CC0
- Price
- $0.00
Small parts are the splats in its usual build on a computer. A phone may draw fewer.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heat it up | Tap | ||
| Heat | Button | ||
| Molecule | List | 31 choices | Caffeine |
About it
A molecule is a group of atoms held together by chemical bonds. This one is a ball-and-stick model: each ball is an atom, colored by its element (carbon dark gray, hydrogen white, oxygen red, nitrogen blue), and each stick is a bond.
It starts as caffeine, C8H10N4O2, the stimulant in coffee and tea; the Splash tab has sugars, medicines, vitamins and DNA too. The atoms always jiggle a little on their bonds, as real ones do; tap it to heat it up and they shake hard, the light hydrogens furthest, each bond stretching and squeezing with its atoms, then it cools. In the Splash tab, pick another molecule, or type a name, a formula or a SMILES string (a way of writing a molecule on one line) to build your own.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,004 at Low, and up to 260,000 at Max
- Your own files
- .mol, .sdf, .sd, .xyz, .pdb, .ent, .txt
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| PubChem 3D conformers (glucose, aspirin, ATP and the rest) | NCBI PubChem | Public domain |
| RCSB Protein Data Bank entry 1BNA (B-DNA dodecamer), hydrogens added | H. R. Drew, R. M. Wing, T. Takano, C. Broka, S. Tanaka, K. Itakura, R. E. Dickerson | CC0 1.0 |
