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Re: Chemical notation


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  • Subject: [mg12315] Re: Chemical notation
  • From: Paul Abbott <paul@physics.uwa.edu.au>
  • Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 18:51:58 -0400
  • Organization: University of Western Australia
  • References: <6imhlr$gv1@smc.vnet.net>

Nicolas Martignoni wrote:

> I would like to typeset a chemical element notation, with Z and A
> numbers, like the following:
> 
>             214
>                Po
>              84
> 
> Is there a way to do this in Mathematica 3.0.x ?

Yes -- and if you look at the output of, say, Hypergeometric1F1[a,b,z]
in TraditionalForm you will see how Mathematica does it.

Cell[BoxData[
    FormBox[
      RowBox[{
        SubsuperscriptBox["\[ThinSpace]", "84", "215"], "Po"}], 
      TraditionalForm]], "Text"]

Cheers,
	Paul 

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