Talk:aethogen

RFV discussion: August 2023–March 2024
An obsolete chemistry term Pinch88 (talk) 23:43, 19 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Aethogen looks likely to be attestable. DCDuring (talk) 02:59, 20 August 2023 (UTC)


 * The alt form may be attestable even if this isn't. Equinox ◑ 05:34, 20 August 2023 (UTC)


 * The name was coined by a certain William Henry Balmain of northern England, who used it in several articles- always as "æthogen" or "Æthogen", with a ligature in the first syllable. Once it was determined that it was boron nitride, people didn't bother with the fancy name except to mention that Balmain called it that. Here is what seems to be the first published use, and here is someone else using it, though they apparently consulted Balmain for the information on how to make the stuff. The rest seems to be mostly in German (without the ligature) and/or mentions. There may be more, but Google's OCR has intermittent problems with the "Æ" ligature that make it hard to be sure. Then there are the compounds of this substance which were called "æthonides". Chuck Entz (talk) 07:31, 20 August 2023 (UTC)


 * RFV failed Denazz (talk) 16:30, 9 March 2024 (UTC)