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Help? I need a describtion for the material acetate for my graphics coursework. All I am able to say at the moment is that it's transparent. Does anyone know whether it a plastic?
No, I don't agree: Ac is a good and common abbreviation for acetate, notably in comparison to other acids (mostly inorganic) such as HAc and
HCl and salts such as NaAc and
NaCl. The above IUPAC reference merely states that the Ac abbreviation is used for Acetyl, which is also correct. That doesn't mean at all that Ac for acetate is incorrect: many other usages of the Ac denomination can be found on the
AC disambiguation page.
Wim van Dorst10:05, 17 October 2005 (UTC).reply
I use Et for
ethyl, and for ethanoate (i.e. acetate) EtOO-. However, I believe that the "traditional" term Ac would be used for either the acetyl or the acetate ion. Justification: HAc would not be mistaken for, say, acetyl hydride
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Please add relevant sources supporting the "good" and "common" usage of Ac symbol for acetate, if applicable. I've
added IUPAC inorg. (already mentioned above), and org. chem. refs for acetyl.
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Mykhal (
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06:09, 22 August 2019 (UTC)reply
Is this the correct formula?
I was under the impression that acetate was C2H302(-1). What's up?
The page keeps being vandalized, someone keeps adding the line "Poopy in your face", and for some reason the chart and table describing the molecular structure of acetate has disappeared.
Ovni (
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21:16, 28 January 2008 (UTC)reply
Not to be confused with actinium?
Is that bit really nescassary? The two words are quite different. They only share the same first two letters, so that would be like confusing "click" with "claustrophobic"
Alecjw (
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09:15, 9 June 2009 (UTC)reply
The abbreviation for acetate (Ac) may be confused with the elemental symbol for Actinium (Ac). However, actinium acetates (!!) notwithstanding, there's probably little chance of ambiguity in a paper arising from this shared abbreviation.
Eutactic (
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06:00, 6 August 2009 (UTC)reply
Ah yeah, good point, I hadn't thought of that. Searching "Ac" gets you to a disambiguation page anyway, so yeah. It's a bit like that annoying new element, Cp. Cp means cyclopentadienyl, but noone cares about copernicium, so it should be alright
Alecjw (
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10:13, 6 August 2009 (UTC)reply
The esters section lists "acetate discs" as an example. Acetate discs are coated with nitrocellulose, not acetate. The acetate disc article confirms this but I put this in talk as I'm not a chemist and somebody with more expertise should verify this and correct.