Talk:europoan

europoan
"(mineralogy) Describing minerals containing divalent europium." Contrasted with europian (trivalent). I can't seem to find this being used anywhere. Google Books only seems to have scannos for European etc. Equinox ◑ 18:43, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Well, at least they weren't just making this up. Google Books has examples here, here, here, and here. Oddly enough, they seem mostly to be non-English sources describing English terminology. The evidence would then seem to be mostly indirect (another line of evidence is that a parallel -ian vs. -oan distinction can be seen in use for other elements such as copper (cuproan vs. cuprian). I'm not sure if this is enough for CFI, but it suggests that the term is at least plausible. Chuck Entz (talk) 22:27, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
 * A few minerology references give explanations such as this for and its chemistry/mineralogy relatives. DCDuring TALK  03:26, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * We need access to Composition of Scientific Words, Roland Wilbur Brown (2000). There are many earlier editions. Michael Quinion uses it and said it has -ian and -oan though his Affixes website did not (yet). DCDuring TALK  10:59, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
 * We might be able to cite this "Translingually" if we added up all the citations in any language, which would be appropriate for what Merriam Webster calls "International Scientific Vocabulary'' (ISV). I suggest that it be redirected to europium and that we include it as a derived term.
 * Europium itself should clearly be Translingual, but it has not been our practice to so treat scientific terms. DCDuring TALK 11:27, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Don't redirect to europium, because we don't do that. Mglovesfun (talk) 15:46, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I would keep this based on the citations provided thus far in this RfV. bd2412 T 20:44, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Kept. bd2412 T 12:15, 6 September 2013 (UTC)