Talk:Potassium silicate

The 3D-image shows Sodium silicate, not Potassium silicate —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.237.216.122 (talk) 08:40, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Dipotassium oxosilanebis(olate) = inappropriate SystematicName

Problem with some content of the chembox:

| SystematicName = Dipotassium oxosilanebis(olate)

In organic chemistry, the suffix "olate" commonly refers to an alcoholate, not to the conjugated base of an inorganic acid. Dipotassium oxosilanebis(olate) is very misleading for the reader. The conjugated base of the metasilicic acid has to follow the same rules as for these of other inorganic acids whose base is also an oxyanion: e.g.

• sulfuric acid: sulfate and not sulfonate;
• phosphoric acid: phosphate and not phosphonate.

All the rules of organic chemistry nomenclature are not directly transposable to inorganic compounds. The analogy with the carbon atom has its limits, even for silicon a close cousin of carbon. Shinkolobwe (talk) 00:35, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Metasilicate represents a specific unit making a linear chain when concatenated together. According to the IUPAC Redbook (see Table IR-8.1, p. 128 on paper, p. 140 in the PDF file), the additive name of metasilicate is: catena-poly[(dioxidosilicate-µ-oxido)–1]. This name explicitly represents the concatenated species (i.e., the polymer). However, the use of such an intricate name in the Chembox is not encouraged, even if more verifiable than the substitutive form only provided by User:Plasmic Physics. Shinkolobwe (talk) 00:35, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Stub to Start

Article was moved from Stub to Start status because it has a significant amount of information and multiple references. Compared to numerous other "Stub" articles in Chemicals and Glass and had greater content than most. In addition, the main article Stub tags were removed. Araesmojo (talk) 22:00, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

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