Some of the benefits of using chemistry simulations:

• Make-up labs.
  Save time by simulating many of the exercises students miss when they are absent from a  real laboratory.
• Slow workers.
  Let students finish experiments on the computer if they run out of time in the laboratory.
• Fast workers.
  Give students more options to try additional experiments while their classmates are  finishing their bench work.
• Hazardous substances.
  Let students use the computer to work with substances that are prohibitively expensive,  toxic or flammable.
• Use sophisticated and expensive equipment.
  Let students use apparatus that is beyond your budget.
• Enrichment work.
  Let students explore, try their own experimental work, and make "research"  proposals to the teacher.  In short, let them begin to explore chemistry.

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