Talk:Magnesite

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Title[edit]

Some material suppliers also called MgO ( commonly known as magnesia ( like MgOH ) to add confusion ) magnesite ! Always check which material you are discussing !

Merger Proposal[edit]

I think this page should be merged with Magnesium Carbonate because they are the same substance, and there is no need for two pages on this. I believe that this page should be absorbed because of the non-scientific name. --Ralf42 (talk) 23:19, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No. This page is a mineralogy article about the mineral - that page is a chemistry article about the chemical compound. There exist hundreds to thousands of mineral articles on Wikipedia, each of which has a chemical formula, but they are distinct from the articles about the chemical compounds forming those naturally occurring minerals. The scientific field of mineralogy has developed its own system of nomenclature over the past two or more centuries of study and work. Just because the nomenclature is not rigerously controlled by IUPAC ... Vsmith (talk) 00:02, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Layout Problem[edit]

There is something fundamentally wrong with the layout of the equation on the MAGNESITE page. However, I dare not interfere. Could someone take the trouble to correct the layout? Thank you ever so much! JeffDellbart (talk) 09:17, 3 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Balanced the equation - was that the problem with the "layout"? Vsmith (talk) 14:05, 3 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Needs a clean up[edit]

The article's initial statement is very confusing. It is also very incomplete in other sections Occupational safety and health doesn't seem to have a purpose at all. --109.49.141.100 (talk) 22:03, 15 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Isotopic Structure[edit]

I added points on isotopic structure and information we can gain from this. With increasing focus on magnesites (from Mars as well as carbon sequestration perspectives), this new tool seems to be very helpful in understanding genesis. SurjyenduB (talk) 06:55, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It may be a worthy topic, but it now is most of this article, which seems like undue emphasis. Would it not be better to have a very brief discussion of just its most magnesite-relevant aspects here, and save the rest for Clumped isotopes? --Kent G. Budge (talk) 22:18, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]