
Atoms · Built from a recipe
Molecule
E6 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 1752.5 Hz.
A molecule is a group of atoms held together by chemical bonds.
- Shelf
- Atoms
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Your own
- Your own molecule
- Sound
- Yes
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Licenses
- Public domain, CC0
Its note
Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 1752.5 Hz, 493 cents sharp of E6, the nearest tine on the comb. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

- 11753 Hz
- 21830 Hz
- 31905 Hz
- 41948 Hz
- 51959 Hz
- 61964 Hz
- 72013 Hz
- 82014 Hz
- 92050 Hz
- 102053 Hz
- 112138 Hz
- 122152 Hz
- 132155 Hz
- 142345 Hz
- 152355 Hz
- 162389 Hz
How to play
Tap it to heat it up. Hands-on: pull an atom; its bonds stretch and it springs back.
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 |



