User talk:Badocter

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Welcome!

Hello, Badocter, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Thank you for your recent edits to Helium clarifying and concising the information about asphyxiation, and answering the reader's question on the Talk. Sometimes, the information is there but written in the most roundabout or sensationalist way. Also, migrating/copying the relevant information about seal air hunger over to the proper article was a really good idea and is the sort of thing that needs to happen more often on Wikipedia. I hope you stick around. If you have any questions, you can respond here within the next few days or find me on my talk page. —Centrx→talk • 03:52, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the positive feedback.Badocter 08:04, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tobacco Smoking

Do you know anything about tobacco farm subsidies, and the changing laws regarding them? I thought it might be a good addition to the Tobacco smoking article. --GoOdCoNtEnT 06:11, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I don't know anthing about it.Badocter 14:03, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Iodine

The published data does not support your latest edit to iodine. CRC gives mp (presumably at 760mm pressure) as 113.7°C and bp as 184.35°C. Between those two temperatures at SP iodine would exist as a liquid. Note that the vapor is strongly colored. At 100°C, the vapor pressure is over 40mm, which would be enough to see a cloud of violet vapor in a test tube. At the mp, the vapor pressure is already close to 100mm (data from vapor-pressure table in CRC 44th ed.). Please support your assertion of no liquid iodine at SP with a reference. Karlhahn 05:21, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What I asserted was at STP, not SP. I think I am right but I'll remove my statement in the article until I can source it.Badocter 20:28, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I went back and reread your sentence, and indeed it does refer to STP. But there is nothing especially remarkable about this. No substance can exist simultaneously as solid, liquid, and vapor except at its triple-point. It is a common misnomer that at atmospheric pressure liquid I₂ cannot exist. This comes from the classroom demonstration that we all have seen of putting some iodine in a test tube and heating it gently -- and the purple vapor appears together with the crystals still intact. I think a sentence or two in the "Notable Characteristics" paragraph about the misnomer and why it is widely believed would be a useful addition to the article, and I would encourage you to add that if you feel so moved. Even though your original sentence was, by the letter, correct, I feel that it would be too easily misread by somebody who has already been exposed to the misnomer. This topic is discussed briefly in the talk section. Karlhahn 20:46, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]