MoleBridge

Welcome to MoleBridge

What this is

A stoichiometry problem, worked one step at a time. You enter every value along the way — the balanced coefficients, the molar mass, the moles, the ratio — and you cannot move on until the step in front of you is right.

When a step is wrong, MoleBridge works out which mistake produces that exact number and tells you, instead of just marking it wrong. If the mistake is an algebra one, it shows you three lines of the algebra using your own numbers.

What this is not

  • It is not a solver. It will not do a problem for you, and it never shows you an answer before you have tried it.
  • It is not a grade. The code at the end records how far you got and where you got stuck. Whoever set it decides what that is worth.
  • It does not know who you are. Learn and Practice ask for nothing at all. The graded route asks for the number you were given and nothing else — no name, no email, no account.

What is in it

  • Learn — short lessons, from reading a formula to percent yield. Nothing is locked; open them in any order.
  • Practice — problems whenever you want them. You can ask to see an answer and work back to it, and if one particular step is the one giving you trouble you can practise just that step, as many times as you like.
  • Assignment — the problems you were set. Answers stay hidden, and you finish with a short code to hand in. It is the only one that asks for anything, and the only one that makes a code.

If you are the one setting the work

There is a second page for you. It builds a warm-up link that opens straight into a short set — no setting up for whoever follows it — and it decodes the codes handed back to you, so you can see which steps were hard. It holds nothing and needs no account.

Open the page for setting work

Bookmark it. Nothing signs you in, so that address is the only way back to it.

Nothing is sent, and what is kept stays here

MoleBridge has no account and no server. Nothing you type ever leaves the device. What it keeps, it keeps on this device only: the problem you are in the middle of, so closing the tab does not cost you your work; your place in the lessons; and how you have set it up to read. None of that is sent anywhere and none of it is in the code you hand in.

What changed

These notes stay behind the ⓘ, under What changed, whenever you want them again.

Periodic table

Pick an element to see its name and weight written out.

These are atomic weights, for one atom's worth. A molar mass is these added up for everything in the formula — which is the part you are practising, so this will not do it for you.

Calculator

This does numbers only. It will not work out a molar mass or convert a unit for you — those are the parts you are practising, and MoleBridge can only tell you what went wrong in them if you do them.

What can go wrong

Report a problem

Pick whatever is closest. You do not have to describe it.

What went wrong

What gets sent

This is the whole report. Nothing else is collected, and there is nowhere here for you to type anything — so there is nothing in it about you.

How to send it

  1. Press Copy this report.
  2. Paste it into a message to whoever set the work — an email, or whatever you already use to send them things.
  3. That is all. You do not need to explain it; the report says what MoleBridge was doing.

MoleBridge cannot send anything itself. It has no way to reach the internet while you use it, which is also why it keeps working when the wifi does not.

About MoleBridge

Version .

Appearance

Light or dark
Colour

Kept on this device only, in this browser. It is not sent anywhere and it does not follow you to another machine.

Reading

Text size
Spacing between letters and lines
How much is on screen

Also on this device only. Nothing about how you read is in the code you hand in, and nothing about it reaches anybody else.

Things worth knowing

  • There is no time limit. The code records how long you had the app open, and that is not a score. Time you spend away from it is not counted at all.
  • Getting a step wrong costs you nothing. Try it as many times as you like. What the code carries is how many were right first time, not how many tries you took.
  • You can stop and come back. Close the tab, shut the lid, walk away. The app remembers where you were and what you had typed.
  • Nothing you type is stored anywhere but this device, and none of it is in the code you hand in.