Talk:Hyperchromicity

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Merge them[edit]

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I agree that Hyperchromicity and Hyperchromic effect should be merged. Skyrocket654 (talk) 14:55, 12 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merge done. -- P 1 9 9 • TALK 19:34, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Requested move 20 January 2015[edit]

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The result of the move request was: No consensus. In the words of User:Alsee, these are opposite terms for the identical concept. Sources appear to discuss these two terms together. I have created a redirect from Hypochromicity to Hyperchromicity so readers can answer their question no matter which term they come looking for. EdJohnston (talk) 02:29, 28 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hyperchromicity → Hypochromicity – There is actually no such thing as hyperchromicity. The interaction of the the electron dipole moments of the bases in DNA and RNA results in a decrease in absorbance, which is referred to as hypochromicity. For reference, see the classic text: BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY, Part II: Techniques for the study of biological structure and function, Cantor, C.R. and Schimmel, P. R., 1980, W.H. Freeman, chapter 7 . Spincole (talk) 18:45, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Weak no-move. Google gives me 24k hits for Hyperchromicity and 21k hits for Hypochromicity. All of the top hits for both appear to be technical-chemistry related. It appears that both terms are equally legitimate. They appear to be opposite terms for the identical concept. I suggest that one of Hyperchromicity/Hypochromicity be a redirect to the other, and sentence or two be added explaining the relationship of the two terms. Unless I'm missing something, I don't see much difference which page-title we use. The Google results slightly favor the current title, and keeping the current title avoids the work to re-write the article and change any pages that already link here. Alsee (talk) 16:47, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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