A fact from 1-Pentadecanol appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 March 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that 1-pentadecanol is synthesized by creeping cucumbers, mutant fungus, and the Shell oil company?
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... that 1-pentadecanol(pictured) is synthesized by creeping cucumbers, mutant fungus, and the Shell oil company? Source: Souw 1977, Barik 2018, Shell Global
Recent 5x expansion, plenty long, and well written albeit a bit technical. QPQ done. The hook is delightfully whimsical, well-cited, and short enough. Image is free, used, and shows up well. Good to go. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:06, 14 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The lede could benefit from having a second paragraph. While having jargon in an article like this is unavoidable, I think it can be reduced in the lede:
The "claims" in that sentence was my attempt at getting the reader to pair Royal Dutch Shell's claims about its product safety with a little sodium chloride ;) (since it is a primary source, after all, and they have some quite compelling reasons to present it in a favorable light). If it's not appropriate here, I will change it accordingly.
That's fine. I'd get a kneejerk reaction 'oh really?' after the words 'shell says', but maybe others don't and the word claim is more appropriate.
(not GA criterion, ignore if you will): 300—370 -> a shorter dash should be used there, right?
I think MoS says to use en-dashes for intervals like that, but it doesn't make a huge difference to me.
(not GA criterion): 𝜇g -> μg. Italics is a bit ugly
Y You know, that pissed me off too: I just used ((mu)) for convenience and it gave me that stupid italic μ. I didn't bother to fix it because I didn't think anyone else would care, but you have given me an excuse to do so now.
Therefore, the interaction of several partially fluorinated 1-pentadecanols with DPPC in a Langmuir monolayer was analyzed in a 2018 paper. The molecules were F4H11OH, F6H9OH, and F8H7OH; as the fluorination degree increased, so did hydrophobicity.[17]
This is kind of bizarre to me as well. I double-checked the reference (here) again, and it does indeed say "H15OH (F4H11OH, F6H9OH, and F8H7OH)". This seems to me like some kind of error (normal pentadecanol is C15H32OH). I agree that it should be impossible for pentadecanols to exist without carbon, and I'll have to look into it further. jp×g23:50, 26 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]