This article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||
|
Can someone explain what the (I) stands for in the name? It is annoying to read an encyclopedia article and couldn't figure out what it says. Should encyclopedia article be self explantory even to laymen, instead of requiring an PhD in Chemistry to understand? If it is too much to explain, perhaps a See Also section that links to Silver(II) Fluoride and Silver(III) Fluoride would at least how readers to figure out what that (I) is for. -- Kowloonese 22:33, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
The I in the name refers to the oxidation number of the metal, in this case silver. This naming system is always used whenever the metal has more than one oxidation number, to make it clear. If the compound is purely ionic, then this number also equals the charge on the metal, so silver(I) fluoride would contain an Ag+ ion and an F- ion.
This naming system is the standard one used in introductory chemistry books at the college level in the US, but I realise that many schools still use the old naming system of "argentous fluoride" and the like. Bearing in mind that we may soon have thousands of pages on Wikipedia with this notation, do you have any suggestions on how we could explain the meaning of such things? Is there a page on chemical notation?
Thanks for raising this important point, Martin A. Walker
I have been informed that there is a page on this topic, called Systematic name. I am currently trying to get agreement on how these Roman numerals will be dealt with, and I think we could probably include your point in the discussion. Martin A. Walker Walkerma 17:05, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I reinsterted the information about standard laboratory preparation - I read the WP:NOTMANUAL policy but I wasn't really going into excessive detail as to how do it and you'd need a lot of research experience to be able to construct a good experimental method from the sketch in the article. I feel it's important that we have the info about prep (e.g. you start from AgNO3/you use a centrifuge), but if this is not done on Wiki, just tell me ! --TatanyaGolding (talk) 09:44, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
According to Chemical Abstracts 1273 articles, books, reviews, patents, reports have appeared on AgF. The magnitude of that number is one reason that AgF is notable, but also incentive to be mindful of WP:SECONDARY.--Smokefoot (talk) 04:43, 17 January 2015 (UTC)