Talk:Chaff

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• Concur. time to split GraemeLeggett 11:53, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

The countermeasure has its own article and half of this one. I removed the split and added merge tags. Hopefully someone knowledgeable can move the information over, add a see reference to the top of this page, and maybe give the other a different title. -Acjelen 06:50, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

The above discussion was about a split of chaff, the husks of grain, from chaff (radar countermeasure), strips of metal used to confuse radar (see this earlier version of the article). --Richard New Forest (talk) 11:37, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed merge of Chaff and Bran

I'm not sure which discussion thread the above were replies to, or how to find it, but it's making me rethink my merge tag. Instead of reverting my merge tag, I'll wait until an actual discussion develops here. I can draw a distinction between the chaff that is threshed and winnowed, and the bran that is milled off before grinding into flour, but I think the distinction is better drawn in a single article about both, and that the two are more likely to remain confused by people who read only one article about either of them. --arkuat (talk) 07:05, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

No merge. They are quite different things. Chaff is the scales that protect the grain, while bran is part of the grain. For example, wholemeal flour has no chaff but it does contain the bran. --Richard New Forest (talk) 18:46, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

We need a diagram for each page, which would greatly help to clarify each subject, they are not related except that some cereal crops have both bran and chaff as byproducts of harvesting and processing. Chaff in botany has no context with bran at all, with bran a part of grass seeds and chaff a part of the flower of some plants in Asteraceae, or sunflowers. Hardyplants (talk) 04:55, 8 June 2008 (UTC)