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I am using LyX to prepare an article. The document class is 'IOP article' and I am using the mhchem package to typeset chemical formulae in the paper. I include \usepackage[version=3]{mhchem} in the LaTeX preamble.

I am thrown 11 errors when I try to preview the document:

  • LaTeX Error: Command \leftroot already defined.
  • LaTeX Error: Command \uproot already defined.
  • etc..

Suggestion/solutions much appreciated.

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The real problem is not mhchem but amsmath which is loaded implicitly by mhchem and seems to be incompatible with the iopart class. Do you need many chemical formulae and even reactions? – cgnieder Jan 16 at 21:31
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You might be able to overcome the problem by adding the following magic just before loading mhchem: \makeatletter\@namedef{ver@amsmath.sty}{}\makeatother – egreg Jan 16 at 21:46
@egreg's suggestion should work if you also load amstext before loading mhchem as the latter relies on the macro \text (which is why it loads amsmath in the first place, I guess) – cgnieder Jan 16 at 22:31

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