Chemical ASCII-art





Chemical ASCII-art is the utilization of ASCII art to represent chemical
structure, specially in wiki.

For this, one uses the chemifishbone

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When editing in wikipidia or another text page, you can copy the length that
you need or copy it plural times to obtain a longer chemifishbone.

You can use the chemifishbone to fill the spaces up with the concrete
chemical compound«s elements.

For example:

    H
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 H--C--OH
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 H--C--OH
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 H--C--OH
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    H

or

    CH2-OH
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    CH-OH
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    CH2-OH

For biochemistry one can use the carbon chemifishbone

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  --C--
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  --C--
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  --C--
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  --C--
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Or better yet:

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Reduces the visual clutter from carbon atoms which are always present.