Talk:angstrom unit

angstrom unit
Sum of parts? -- Liliana • 18:09, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete . angstrom, unit. bd2412 T 20:33, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Striking, changing vote to keep based on the inclusion of this phrase in Black's Medical Dictionary (as Ångström Unit, noting its etymology). bd2412 T 23:01, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
 * A little bit of googling will reveal that unlike "meter unit" etc., "angstrom unit" is actually used as alternative term to "angstrom". Also dictionary.com mentions "angstrom unit" as alternative term to "angstrom". Keep, but probably as alternative form -page. --Hekaheka 23:20, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Or is it just a qualifier? In juggling people say cascade or cascade pattern, the latter is just for a bit of clarity for people who don't know what a cascade is. Doesn't mean it's not sum of parts, au contraire, it's very sum of parts. Mglovesfun (talk) 08:48, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Could be, drawing the line is sometimes a question of judgment between equally likely outcomes. However, "Modern dictionary for electronics" from 1999, which seems to be written for people who know their science, uses both "angstrom unit" and "angstrom" in the text. The search word is "angstrom unit", whereas electronvolt, farad, faraday (different from farad), coulomb etc. appear without this qualifier. --Hekaheka 06:37, 6 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I would keep this one. It is indeed very common. SemperBlotto 07:14, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep, given this exact phase is often used to refer to the unit, unlike, say, "meter unit". Some apparent analogues include "degree Celsius" and "degree Fahrenheit" in that "degree" is an optional part of the phrase, but is it really? Some searches:, . The search also finds "Ångström units" in English texts without italics and capitalized, as in here, and "Angstrom units" without italics and capitalized, as in here. I admit the term looks like a sum of parts, though. --Dan Polansky 18:09, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Week keep as an entry per Dan's point about "degree Celsius" and "degree Fahrenheit", or delete but mention (unlinked) in usage notes at angstrom. There's probably a stronger case for keeping "Ångström unit", like "Planck constant". - -sche (discuss) 19:33, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep. DAVilla 16:23, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Striking as kept. bd2412 T 13:41, 20 October 2011 (UTC)