Talk:Singlet oxygen

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Comment to Mathchem271828: In the first paragraph, I think it be more appropriate to use S.I. energy units for a energy difference between the two states instead of giving it as a temperature.

• A the moment, it reads "The energy difference...is about 11,400 Kelvins... = 7918.1 cm^-1" In dimensional terms, of course, neither K nor cm^-1 is an energy. Joules everywhere, please -- no Hartrees, kcal, kcal/mole, kJ/mole, BTU, quads, foot-pounds, etc., etc., unless SI is there first.

Wavenumbers is the basic currency that chemists of all types, organic, physical, inorganic.. have an intuitive feel for because we are all familiar with IR spectroscopy. They are a fully accepted currency of energy as are kelvins for questions of thermodynamics. SI units are fine for other areas but not for chemistry, in general. Mathchem271828 00:21, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

lapo_dk

lapo_dk; I'll just throw this out there that the temperature is good for people to put the data into a thermodynamics perspective. The temperature might give you an idea of relative populations of the species. Mathchem271828 19:29, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

That temperature was totally wrong. It didn't take into account the O₂'s degrees of freedom and lookd like it took two atoms as one free atom. -lysdexia 11:01, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

"72 minutes" is a half-life, right? — Omegatron 00:16, 5 April 2007 (UTC)