Talk:Hypochlorous acid
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[edit] Chlorine + Water
This reaction is actually an equilibrium. Could someone change the equation to having an equilibrium sign.
- I second that. Don't know how to do it myself, though. RobertAustin 12:16, 2 November 2006 (UTC), Chemistry Teacher
[edit] Bond angle
The molecular diagram implies that this molecule is linear, but I'm 99% certain it's bent. I don't know the bond angle, but will make an attempt to find it. In the meantime, who knows how to change the pic to make HOCl bent? RobertAustin 12:16, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] References
I wrote about 10 pages of my MS thesis on hypochlorous acid. So I went through the article and provided refs, for some of the info already present. I might also expand the article, but am not sure to what degree. I'll probably start with the 5 pages in my thesis regarding the chemical reactivity of HOCl. Also, in regards the pKa of HOCl, I changed the original info and provided a corresponding reference that I know to be a fairly thourough study of the matter. I didn't recognize the original figure provided, but if it was more accurate, change it back and provide a reference.
James.folsom 23:53, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, about the date order. I got started today with a major revision that would add a great deal of information about the reactivity of HClO with biomolecules. I'm keeping it in a notepad file, and when it's complete I will just paste it in, after accounting for any other edits by other people. The problem I'm going to have is with citations: In many cases, I will need to use the same scholarly article for multiple pieces of information. If I do this with the preferred footnoting method it will result in the footnote list being cluttered with duplicate full citations. Is there a good way to do this, or am I maybe trying to provide info that is just to technical. James.folsom 23:42, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
- What you can do, is when you finished your offline edit, is to create a page in your sandbox (you can do that by typing e.g. /sandbox after your username, so in your case e.g. the page useR:James.folsom/Sandbox), copy the contents of this page there, and merge your edits there into the article. Then when you are finished, you copy the text back to the mainspace. Gives you a bit more room to do things, without bringing the article in the main space into an unreadable state for a moment.
- What I think you mean about the references. Duplicates are easy to circumvent. The first time you use a reference, you type <ref name=ref1>the text as normal</ref>. For all the next references that refer to the same reference, you now only have to type <ref name=ref1/>. See for example cyclol, there are references in the list that have a superscript "a" and a "b" (e.g. ref 2), these are made in this way (I use this page as a testversion for my rewrite of cite.php, so don't worry that you get too technical with me). In fact, it even works when you do it the other way around, but that is confusing to editors. Hope this helps. --Dirk Beetstra T C 23:49, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] First Major edit
I added a section with a subsection that I adapted from my thesis. If this section is received w/o to much complaint, I will finish the whole section. James.folsom 06:05, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
I was plagued by the flu. The next section I was working is now added.
