MAT — Materials

The MAT (Materials) module is planned as a future extension of SciNumTools. Its purpose is to provide functionality for representing chemical elements, compounds, materials, and mixtures and for calculating their properties from chemical formulas and composition.

A major objective of MAT is to make chemical composition a directly usable source of scientific data. A chemical formula could be parsed into its constituent elements and proportions, allowing properties such as molar mass, elemental composition, and other composition-dependent quantities to be calculated automatically. The module is intended to build on the numerical and dimensional infrastructure already provided by the lower layers of SciNumTools.