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Yeah, so I started this as a reference for all those weird items I was finding in my research, but couldn't easily find on wikipedia, or in other references. Many of these things have multiple confusing/conflicting names, depending on the authors.

I included some small recipies on how to make each one - because many of these items were simple mixes of other substances. I tried to reference the names to chemical formulas, mineral names, or botanical references. However, there should probably be a common organization to that, which is lacking at present.

I've also put some items indented below others, because they're just preperations of the first substance (often heated, refined/distilled, or moistened) - some are related families (chemically, by name, or otherwise)

Should we include modern replacements (see white lead), warnings of toxicity & explosivity/flammability, and everything else? I'm not real sure. Comments?

— ~ender (talk) 03:27, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Changing names?

I'm sure that someone thought that changing 'carbonate of lead' into the more proper 'lead carbonate' was useful, although I'm not sure how someone thought that changing 'Carbonate of Copper' into 'copper(II) carbonate' would be at all useful in a Google search/Reference page.

Yes, 'carbonate of ...' is not current proper chemical usage, but that's not the point (or rather it is the whole point). We're making a reference so that someone can look up 'Carbonate of copper' because when a person is reading some random text (or a novel, which is using that phrase for color) they have no clue what that phrase means (because all the current documentation doesn't use that name).

— ~ender (talk) 10:11, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]