Chemical Formula to Mass Converter

Compute the molar mass associated to a chemical formula.

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

Lars Skjaerven

See also

atom2ele, atom2mass

Examples

#formula2mass("C5 H6 N O3")