Talk:Ethane
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Article Grading: The following comments were left by the quality and importance raters: (edit · refresh) Significant copy-edit needed to improved prose and presentation for recommendation for promotion to A-Class. Wim van Dorst (Talk) 22:58, 17 February 2007 (UTC). |
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The article has the sentence "It is the simplest hydrocarbon containing more than one carbon atom."
Not quite sure what "simplest" means here... acetylene would seem simpler in having fewer hydrogens.
Opinions?
Depends on how you define it. Ethane has only sp3 hybrid orbitals, therefore only equivalent σ bonds, whereas acetylene has σ and π bonds, giving a more complicated electronic configuration. I would keep it the way it is. Dr. Strangelove 09:01, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I agree, it depends on how you define it. And, also, it depends on why you define it. My guess is that the author was trying to say something to non-scientists, and to readers in that group, who don't know chemical bond types, numbers seem crucial to simplicity. But I'm not a mindreader (or a chemist), and don't have a stake in the outcome. Fg2 10:22, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Ummm, maybe this is just me and my humble background, but I doubt that ethane is 548 kg/m^3 as a gas. These pages REALLY need consistant units (from ethane to methane to propane etc.)
- I've corrected the density to 1.212 kg/m^3. This is from the www.airliquide.com gas data for ethane, 1.013 bar and 15 deg C. Evand 20:10, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Ethane_clouds_found_on_Titan I was thinking this might be rellevant to the article, as Titan and it's Ethane is mentioned and discussed breifly? --217.78.21.25 08:26, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
