Talk:Naphthalene

message: It's spelled both ways on the page. Are these a typos? Binarypower 04:04, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently napthalene is not a simple misspelling — it even gets several thousand hits on Google Scholar — but naphthalene is much more common. I think it's more etymologically faithful, too, but for some reason ναφθα doesn't appear in my Liddell & Scott (and neither does ναπθα). —Keenan Pepper 01:07, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Napthalene or Naphthalene 

message: This was featured on an episode of House, where it caused a disease which in the end was the main plot of the story! Hopefully someone would be able to write something in these lines. Thanks, Aeryck89 04:11, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feature in popular culture 

message: ..."male and female rats exhibited: evidence of carcinogenic activity, based on increased incidences of adenoma and neuroblastoma of the nose, female mice exhibited some evidence of carcinogenic activity, based on increased incidences of alveolar and bronchiolar adenomas of the lung, and male mice exhibited no evidence of carcinogenic activity."...
- I think this needs clarifying/replacing; appears to be contradictory
78.150.166.55 (talk) 10:25, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Toxicity 

message: It is not well defined how naphtalene occurs on nests of Formosan termites and is precipitated to affirm that is directly generated by them Chen et al. 1998 DOI: 10.1021/jf9709717 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on January 29, 2009. Maybe someone can search additional citations to verify that point in most recent research papers, but is mandatory rewrite that kind of affirmations if it is not well referenced. Sorry my English is too poor, so I couldn't do it. --Bestiasonica (talk) 23:08, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Formosan termites 

message: "It is volatile, forming an inflammable vapor,"
Is that in its meaning "highly burnable" or "completely unburnable"? I've heard both and as this is currently in the article head I think it sohuld be clarified. 90.178.52.11 (talk) 16:53, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Flammable and inflammable both mean burnable (for inflammable think of inflammation), non-flammable is the opposite of flammable. 24.148.80.51 (talk) 23:54, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Because the term "inflammable" is confusing to many readers, it is better to use the non-ambiguous term "flammable". Reify-tech (talk) 20:11, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  In/--flammable 

message: The skeletal structure shows alternating single and double bonds; this is incorrect.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.149.203.229 (talk) 18:44, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a standard way of depicting aromatic compounds.  Although using a circle within the rings is more precise, drawing as alternating single and double bonds is more common and readily interpreted as aromaticity.  -- Ed (Edgar181) 14:11, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misleading picture? 

message: Usage/ban in China either this ban is not in effect or is not enforced.
Chinese relatives use these, and a quick search shows they are widely sold http://www.alibaba.com/countrysearch/CN/moth-ball.html  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.149.125.42 (talk) 11:13, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: P.S. Page mothball includes "Mothballs and other products containing naphthalene have been banned within the EU since 2008.[17]" and link 17 is more nearly authoritative. 94.30.84.71 (talk) 12:47, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Health effects 

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thread_title: Assessment comment

message: Are there any available methods to synthesise naphthelene from (naphthelene-2-sulfonic acids) other than heating in dil.H2SO4  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 111.91.88.194 (talk) 04:21, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: See Desulfonylation reactions. --Smokefoot (talk) 14:26, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  desulfonation of naphthalene sulfonic acids 

message: See Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard#Naftalan oil again. --Guy Macon Alternate Account (talk) 17:22, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naftalan oil