Talk:Cerium nitrates

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Chemicals articles generally have a main topic chemical with an infobox and discussion of other variants e.g. hydrates. This article is more of a summary of the Cerium (III) and cerium (IV) nitrates and double nitrates. I have done a little copy editing and renamed one section to clarify the cerium oxidation state in the cerate(III) anion. Axiosaurus (talk) 13:16, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I am a member of the Chemicals project, not the Chemistry project, that's why I use chemicals! Something like conical flask I would expect to see in the chemistry project. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 12:05, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The first table lists "dipotassium diaquapentanitratocerate dihydrate" K₂Ce(NO₃)₅.2H₂O. Shouldn't that be either "dipotassium diaquapentanitratocerate" or "dipotassium pentanitratocerate dihydrate", not both? Why is it not "dipotassium cerium pentanitrate dihydrate", or "dipotassium cerium(III) nitrate dihydrate"? --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 20:02, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You are right about the potassium salt, (KCN). The "diaqua" is used as the water is coordinated to the cerium atom. It is correct in the article for ammounium. Two water molecules are coordinated on the cerium atom, and another two are water of crystallization. See this url for confirmation: http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S1600536806006593 Graeme Bartlett (talk) 07:37, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]