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Post 41

TheDepressedYak

I found the article really interesting, just a few points (hope you're not too fed up by now)

1) In the Antimony entry, you say it "was thought not to be found alone in nature" - has it been found alone since?
2) Even if you decide not to use links for the whole thing, a link to Erbium from Terbium would be good - it's a long way to scroll.
3) I really don't know what a flux is, so the Fluorine entry didn't really mean much to me.
4) There's still "confoirmation" in the Germanium entry.
5) This really might annoy you, but is there not a better word than "nice" to use in "nice transparent crystals"

Don't mean to seem like I'm nitpicking, I really enjoyed your article.


A2293535 - The Elements: Names and Origins

Post 42

Dr Hell

Thanks for your constructive comments Yak. I'll see to it ASAP

Except: 2) Link, I am afraid I'd have to link everything then.

Thanks again,

HELL


A2293535 - The Elements: Names and Origins

Post 43

Dr Hell

Okay. Flux - added a footnote. Antimony - added a sentence. Confoirmation - corrected. Nice - replaced by 'well-shaped'

HELL


A2293535 - The Elements: Names and Origins

Post 44

Recumbentman

Wonderful entry Hell!

Is there an origin for the word proton, from Proteus perhaps?

You still say "Aluminium has been isolated" in such a year; this construction makes you sound like a German-speaker, and English-speaker would only say "was isolated" (surely?)

And though you give the international spelling of Aluminium (correctly, as h2g2 is in British english) you give the American spelling of Caesium.

Lutrtium: give Lutetia its capital L

Oxygen -- another few words on generating sourness -- souring foods (oxidation) would be nice.

Surprising to find antimony was used in a black pigment: it is also used as a powerful detergent or cleaner, in the form of Butter of Antimony, which is hard to buy because it is lethally poisonous. What is it about pigments and poison (arsenic green)?

An entry to treasure!


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Pimms

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Sea Change

This was a particulary ambitious article, and the author worked on it well and saw it through.

Coolness!

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Old Hairy

Congratulations.


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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho

Well done Hell smiley - cheers


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Post 50

Dr Hell

smiley - bubbly Thank you all!

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