Talk:1,4-Dichlorobenzene

message: How does it work? 69.140.164.142 03:37, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Normal chemical-speak is "sublimate", for both the noun and the verb.  This is supported by some quick online checks, as well as my own (albeit limited) experience.  The noun/verb distinction is made more clear in spoken form:  the noun ("the flask is full of the sublimate") is spoken "sub-li-mit" ("mit", as in the thing you wear on your hand), while the verb ("it sublimates as we speak!") is spoken "sub-li-mate" (mate, as in partner, friend, etc).
And note that this is far from the only example in English:  conflict, contest, contract, convert, convict, incline, insult, object, permit, present, product, project, protest, rebel, recall, reject, research, walk, etc ad nauseum.  Indeed, checks on that subject show that not even English is unique in this noun-verb overlap.
So I've reverted the revert, and request that a Real Chemist be sworn to testify that "sublime" is normal chemical lingo before someone moves it back.  mdf (talk) 05:01, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  sublimate vs sublime 

message: I searched with ISI and google scholar for anything proofing the disinfectant properties and found nothing. Has anybody any study or proof that this stuff does somthing besides smelling awful?--Stone (talk) 06:20, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Ullmann's clearly states that disinfectants is the largest application.  Possibly it does nothing, but people buy it now.  Why did people buy naphthalene?  I also cannot imagine any biological role (possibly a P450 inhibitor?).  Regarding the above refernces, consider this fact: J. Phys Chem, just one of ca 30 journals from the Am Chem Soc, just one of possibly five major publishing units in just the chemical world, published 47,000 pages last year.  So except for major discoveries, it is unrealistic to cite primary literature.--Smokefoot (talk) 12:26, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I thought that somebody published something usefull on the disinfectant abilities, but no. The refs from above are the best I found on metabolism, which is important I think. The dichlorobenzene ends up in the urine as dichlorophenol. The toxicology says that it is not very toxic to liver cells. And whyt I find funny is that more than 90% of all americans contain significant amounts of p-dichlorobenzene and some upto 450 microgramm per liter urin. In the marine ocosystems it is used as marker for uncleaned sewage contamination in the sediment.  So it might be nice to include this facts, if they benefit the article?--Stone (talk) 13:22, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Disinfectant

message: This section contains an inaccurate statement, The chlorides on p-DCB can be substituted with oxygen,. You cannot substitute an oxygen (double bond) a substituent on an aromatic ring without loosing the aromaticity (in which case it would no longer be a benzene compound). Did the original author intend  substituted with a hydroxl group (thus forming a phenol compound)? If we're going to have this section, I think it would also be useful to link to Friedel-Crafts as well (because this is the chief way that substitution is going to occur.--InsufficientData (talk) 14:45, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with the hydroxyl wording so have changed it.AssegaiAli (talk) 19:30, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Precursor to other chemicals section

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--JeffGBot (talk) 15:29, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. DMacks (talk) 17:42, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead link 

message: The odor says "mothball-like", and it just so happens that this chemical is used in some mothballs, making that statement somewhat circular in logic. Someone should at least try to find a new description. 74.215.10.147 (talk) 20:54, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Just an observation