Talk:organolithium
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Rfv-sense: Describing any organic compound containing a carbon to lithium bond
The adjective sense seems just an attributive use of the noun sense. If the nomination is controversial, please move to RFD; otherwise, let us seek evidence of distinctly adjectival uses. --Dan Polansky (talk) 18:04, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
- Very many Google book hits for "organolithium compound" and "organolithium chemistry". Would they count? SemperBlotto (talk) 18:11, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
- Would many hits in google books:"lithium compounds" make "lithium" an adjective in your eyes? I think what is interesting is that Google search for "organolithium" seems to find very many attributive uses of "organolithium" and very few standalone noun uses. --Dan Polansky (talk) 18:48, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
- Yes, I see what you mean. In fact, chemists virtually never use the term as a simple noun, always using "organolithium compound" or "organolithium reagent" and so on. Of course, if we delete the adjective sense, then we have nowhere to hang the translations (I am having trouble finding translations of the noun). SemperBlotto (talk) 18:56, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
- I am striking and retracting the nomination, as it seems to do more harm than good, per "chemists virtually never use the term as a simple noun". --Dan Polansky (talk) 19:17, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
- Yes, I see what you mean. In fact, chemists virtually never use the term as a simple noun, always using "organolithium compound" or "organolithium reagent" and so on. Of course, if we delete the adjective sense, then we have nowhere to hang the translations (I am having trouble finding translations of the noun). SemperBlotto (talk) 18:56, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
- Would many hits in google books:"lithium compounds" make "lithium" an adjective in your eyes? I think what is interesting is that Google search for "organolithium" seems to find very many attributive uses of "organolithium" and very few standalone noun uses. --Dan Polansky (talk) 18:48, 15 January 2013 (UTC)