Talk:Ethylene oxide

message: I notice that there is another (and IMHO much inferior) page on this compound at epoxyethane.  I would like to turn that page into a simple redirect to this page.  Any comments? Walkerma 06:10, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplicate page 

message: The article states that the IUPAC name of ethylene oxide is "1,2-epoxyethane". I don't think the numbers are needed in this case, since there is no ambiguity in the name "epoxyethane", and according to the naming guidelines, position numbers should not be used when not necessary. 193.217.163.93 14:26, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  IUPAC name 

message: I added a new external link to http://www.eosa.org on the article page.  This site deals with the safe use of Ethylene Oxide.  
--Scot1967 (talk) 16:08, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  New External Link 

message: I'm moving the old chemical infobox here, as I've replaced it with a chembox new.
Ben 18:14, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old chembox 

message: Is there a reason I have missed why this page makes no mention of the name epoxyethane whatsoever? I was under the impression that is a fairly common name for this compound. I-hunter (talk) 20:42, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It's listed as the IUPAC name.  If you click Show you'll see it.  If we can confirm that epoxyethane is indeed the correct IUPAC name, then we should perhaps mention it in the lead. Thanks, Walkerma (talk) 21:12, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Epoxyethane

message: Ethylene oxide is commonly used in medical sterilization, it would be nice if a little info on its use and process for this type sterilization was included.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.216.208.11 (talk) 23:49, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: There is some "little info" on that in the lead and "applications", "other uses". Materialscientist (talk) 23:52, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Use in medical sterilization

message: "The first synthesis method had long remained the only, despite numerous attempts of scientists, including Wurtz himself, to produce ethylene oxide directly from ethyl". Should "ethyl" not read "ethanol" or "ethylene/ethene"?
Moletrouser (talk) 05:27, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: History of Synthesis

message: Taken from this version of the article. There's something very likely wrong with this. The number is three orders of magnitude below the other productions mentioned nearby. The source cited requires registration. 80.250.81.35 (talk) 08:34, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: 1 million, not 1000, probably my typo, fixed, thanks. Materialscientist (talk) 08:46, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  "China Petrochemical Corporation (~1000 tonnes in 2006[68])" 

message: The article states:  "The heterocyclic triangular structure of ethylene oxide was not proposed until 1893."  However, I suspect that the triangular structure of ethylene oxide was proposed (and in use in the literature) earlier than 1893.  
In the journal Nature (April 6, 1893, vol. 47, p. 551), a report states:  "The author then proceeds to discuss the orthodox formulae for trimethylene [i.e., cyclopropane], ethylene oxide, and diazoimide [i.e., hydrazoic acid] …".  There follows an illustration showing the hypothetical triangular structure of each substance.  "The author" (W. H. Perkin) calls these structures "orthodox", which suggests that they've been used widely for some time; i.e., prior to 1893.  Ethylene oxide was depicted as having a triangular molecular structure in:
*  1890:  Henry E. Roscoe and Carl Schorlemmer, ed.s A Treatise on Chemistry (New York:  D. Appleton and Co., 1890), vol. 3 (The chemistry of the hydrocarbons …), part 2, page 35.
*  1889:  Henry Watts et al., ed.s, Watts' Dictionary of Chemistry (London, England:  Longmans, Green, and Co.:  1889), vol. 2, page 490.
*  1883:  Friedrich K. Beilstein, Handbuch der organischen Chemie (Hamburg, Germany:  Leopold Voss, 1883), vol. 1, page 392.
*  1876:  Eugen F. von Gorup-Besanez, ed., Lehrbuch der organischen Chemie für den Unterricht auf Universitäten, … (Braunschweig, Germany:  Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1876), vol. 2, page 253.</br>
Cwkmail (talk) 18:36, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Structure of ethylene oxide: history 

message: A followup of [[user talk: Materialscientist #<math> pollution]].
I think either “⋯” or “ · · · ” will be possible replacements for a moronic “•••”. Though, “•” for a free radical (i.e. an unpaired electron) is nice, isn’t it? Or, possibly, it should be superscripted, such as in •OH? Incnis Mrsi (talk) 14:42, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleansing of typography 

message: I received the following message from "DVWynn", who noted a difference between 2 sources for the compound's heat of formation--
In The Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds, Small Ring Heterocycles edited by Alfred Hassner, page 7-8, the heat of formation [of etylene oxide] is given as 117.2 kJ/mol, [which is] derived from heat of combustion 114.4 kJ/mol, and importantly, the ring-strain is quoted as 54.4 kJ/mol. These are at odds with the values on the page by a HUGE amount. [The ethylene oxide page lists the compound's heat of formation as: Std enthalpy of formation ΔfHo298 = −52.6 kJ mol−1 .]  I presume 'angular stress' means ring-strain but maybe my terminology is out of date? Since its main use is in thermobaric weapons, I presume that it packs a lot of energy in a small (by spacial volume) 'package'. Note that heptanitrocubane is preferred over octanitrocubane because its concentration of energy (due to crystal structure) is higher.
Cwkmail (talk) 16:54, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Thermodynamic values

message: About Ehtylene Oxide producers: in case anyone has the time or care to add this to the article,  LyondellBasell also produces this  product in Texas, USA according to their website.  
Reference:
Http://www.lyondellbasell.com/Aboutus/WorldWideLocations/NorthAmerica/USA/Texas/Channelview/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.194.50.35 (talk) 15:22, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestions 

message: According to the diagram it is a 3-4-3 rating (NFPA 704) but when I looked at the source (http://web.archive.org/web/20090804080033/http://www.sonoma-county.org/des/pdf/fire/bulletins/info_bulletin_nfpa_marking2009_04n.pdf) it is actually a 2-4-3.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:610:1908:F000:D82E:D0AA:9CF2:39D3 (talk) 12:02, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  NFPA rating is wrong 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

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thread_title: Assessment comment

message: "In 2016, ethylene oxide became the first known chiral molecule detected in space."
The article references to propylene oxide.
:Removed, thanks. Materialscientist (talk) 10:48, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ethylene oxide is non-chiral 

message: Our article gives a reaction mechanism suggested by Kilty and Sachtler, but two of the reactions are not charge-balanced. I can't access the journal article. Can someone fix this? Eric Kvaalen (talk) 14:20, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I downloaded the paper.  If you have any questions, feel free to ask.  The authors draw a picture with Ag-O--O+.  The terminal O attacks the C=C bond.--Smokefoot (talk) 21:57, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Charge balance

message: Units are all over the place.  Sometimes degrees Celsius is converted in parens to Fahrenheit, sometimes not.  As far as I can tell and just checking mentally, the conversions have been made accurately but I have not checked them all.  I don't see the need for these conversions because the only common use for Fahrenheit is ambient temperature and cooking temperature in the countries which have not adopted Celsius, and they disrupt the flow of the piece.  Concentration of EtO in air from the point of view of toxicity are given in ppm, mL/m3, imp fl oz/cu ft (!! yes really), mg/m3, gr/cu ft (note here gr = grains not grams - again it appears that the conversion to gr/cu ft has been done accurately but come on - do we really want grains in WP articles?).  I propose that we use the reference's units - which of course vary - and convert all these to either ppm or mg/m3 a common lingua franca unit as  necessary.  This will be a lot of work and I do actually know what I am doing, but I am worried that it would be seen by some as OR: and extensive work to clarify the article to make it more useful would be reverted.  Any thoughts? Cross Reference (talk) 01:12, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Units of concentration and temperature