r/chemistry is a subreddit with 3.9M members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses chemistry, struggling, organic, reaction, and lab, and they frequently recommend/review scientific calculator, novels, and programming languages.
A community for chemists and those who love chemistry
Popular Themes in r/chemistry
#1
Advice Requests
: "Advise on selling lab glass"
7 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Chemical inventory audit just revealed containers nobody can identify and I don't know what to do with them"
5 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Chemical decontamination protocols in our research lab feel improvised every time we have a spill"
2 posts
#4
Self-Promotion
: "5 months ago I shared my free chemical sketcher (BondCraft). Thanks to your feedback, it now features smart peptide chaining, a real-time aromaticity engine, native ChemDraw import, and much more."
2 posts
#5
News
: "50,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in california because an aerospace plant's chemical tank is about to explode and firefighters say they can't stop it. it's 5 miles from disneyland. and it's been going on for 3 days."
2 posts
#6
Ideas
: "I'm making a chemistry factory game but i wanna ask before i spend too long on something impossible..."
1 post
Popular Topics in r/chemistry
#1
Chemistry
: "Can anyone tell me what I got ? I’m very curious about this Chemistry set."
293 posts
#2
Struggling
30 posts
#3
Organic
: "pregnant Organic chemist"
23 posts
#4
Reaction
: "Typo in published figure or am I misunderstanding the Reaction?"
21 posts
#5
Lab
: "Advise on selling Lab glass"
20 posts
#6
Looking For A
14 posts
#7
Struggling With
13 posts
#8
Help
: "I need Help and I don’t know where else to turn"
12 posts
#9
Students
10 posts
#10
Research
: ""Spiderwebs" hanging from the condenser in my reaction formed by TMSCl and NEt3 vapors."
10 posts
Products Discussed in r/chemistry
Scientific Calculator
25 reviews
#1
Texas Instruments
4.8★ from 20 reviews
#2
HP
5.0★ from 3 reviews
#3
Casio
4.0★ from 2 reviews
Novels
12 reviews
#1
Bonnie Garmus
4.0★ from 2 reviews
#2
Primo Levi
5.0★ from 2 reviews
#3
Andy Weir
4.5★ from 2 reviews
Programming Languages
5 reviews
#1
RDKit
5.0★ from 1 review
#2
Wolfram
5.0★ from 1 review
#3
C++
4.0★ from 1 review
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+32k members(0.8%)
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Last updated: June 8, 2026