Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemicals/Inorganics

The following is a list of Wikipedia articles about inorganic chemical substances, prepared for the CAS validation exercise: as of 2008-03-26, there were 1889 entries.

There is another list, which consists mainly of organics with a few inorganics.

Criteria for inclusion edit

The main criteria for inclusion is that he substance cannot be easily described by an InChI or by similar systems of connection mapping. This applies to all non-molecular substances and most organometallics and transition metal complexes. Some molecular compounds of the non-metals (eg silicon tetrachloride) have also been included, as it would seem strange to leave them off a list of inorganics.

Excluded articles edit

Proteins, enzymes, DNA structures: see glutathione peroxidase for an excellent example of identifying proteins which doesn't use CAS Registry Numbers.
Minerals.
Polymers.
Heteroorganic compounds, that is, compounds which have a few heteroatoms in an organic compounds and which can be satisfactorily described by InChIs.
most "Materials".
Substances of unknown composition, eg aphronitre.

Included articles edit

Allotropes of carbon, and other structural modifications which have their own articles, eg the various forms of ice.
Specific grades of pure chemicals where these have their own articles, eg dishwasher salt. Some "materials" have been included under this header.
Pigments.
various Mixtures, so long as we have some information about their chemical composition, including:
- medicinal and iatrochemical compositions;
- alchemical substances;
- alloys;
- other homogeneous materials of defined composition.

Criteria of classification edit

This list has been split into element categories. obviously any chemical compound, by definition, could go into more than one element category: categories have been assigned here in an attempt to ensure that the lengths of the various sections are not too disparate.

What needs doing? edit

We are working on the assumption that the CAS Registry Numbers for inorganic substances will have to be verified against their names, one by one (for organics, the process should be slightly more automated), and we're still not sure exactly what format the list will take.

As a first step, this list needs to be checked for completeness, and we need to know which articles cover more than one substance (eg, mixtures, hydrates, etc).

Article list edit

Aluminium edit

Ammonium edit

Antimony edit

Arsenic edit

Barium edit

Beryllium edit

Bismuth edit

Boron edit

Bromine edit

Cadmium edit

Caesium edit

Calcium edit

Carbon edit

Cerium edit

Chlorine edit

Chromium edit

Cobalt edit

Copper edit

Fluorine edit

Gadolinium edit

Gallium edit

Germanium edit

Gold edit

Hafnium edit

Hydrogen edit

Indium edit

Iodine edit

Iridium edit

Iron edit

Lanthanum edit

Lead edit

Lithium edit

Magnesium edit

Manganese edit

Mercury edit

Molybdenum edit

Nickel edit

Niobium edit

Nitrogen edit

Noble gases edit

Osmium edit

Other elements edit

Oxygen edit

Palladium edit

Phosphorus edit

Platinum edit

Post-Uraniums edit

Potassium edit

Rare earths edit

Rhenium edit

Rhodium edit

Rubidium edit

Ruthenium edit

Scandium edit

Selenium edit

Silicon edit

Silver edit

Sodium edit

Strontium edit

Sulfur edit

Tantalum edit

Technetium edit

Tellurium edit

Thallium edit

Thorium edit

Tin edit

Titanium edit

Tungsten edit

Uranium edit

Vanadium edit

Yttrium edit

Zinc edit

Zirconium edit