Talk:Sodium arsenate

Potassium arsenate

This page should me moved to potassium arsenate.

There is no article for potassium arsenate. It makes sense to make one article for both sodium and potassium arsenate, since they are very similar.CaffeineWitcher (talk) 12:54, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Title

This article is about sodium dihydrogen arsenate, and thus should be renamed accordingly, or sodium arsenates could also be used, making the article a more general one on different acid salts of the same. Szaszicska (talk) 08:45, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Good point. For some obscure/specialized compounds, the article naming is intentionally vague because we (or at least I) assume that most readers are not really savvy about the individual derivatives and would benefit from a discussion that combines related compounds. Another reason is that naming is often (infuriatingly) ambiguous, with "sodium arsenate" meaning several compounds. Finally, many of the sodium arsenates are interconvertible and, to some extent, coexist. So we sacrifice some rigor for the sake of utility. Articles on alkali metal phosphates are more carefully subdivided but these salts are more useful. One way to deal with your concern would be to build up subsections on each of the salts (Na3, Na2H, NaH2, and the meta and pyro salts) etc.--Smokefoot (talk) 17:01, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Role in organic synthesis

Sodium arsenate can be used as a mild oxidizing agent for oxidative dehydrogenation. Should there be a paragraph about this? Here is an example (page 11).CaffeineWitcher (talk) 14:59, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

References

"Potassium arsenate" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Potassium arsenate. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 March 24#Potassium arsenate until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Beland (talk) 01:19, 24 March 2021 (UTC)