formula2mass: Chemical Formula to Mass Converter

formula2massR Documentation

Chemical Formula to Mass Converter

Description

Compute the molar mass associated to a chemical formula.

Usage

formula2mass(form, sum.mass = TRUE)

Arguments

form

a character string containing a chemical formula on the form: 'C3 H5 N O1'.

sum.mass

logical, should the mass of each element be summed.

Details

Compute the molar mass (in g.mol-1) associated to a chemical formula.

Value

Return a single element numeric vector containing the mass corresponding to a given chemical formula.

Author(s)

Lars Skjaerven

See Also

atom2ele, atom2mass

Examples

#formula2mass("C5 H6 N O3")

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