Talk:Homogeneity (disambiguation)

Confusing tag
I have tagged this article as confusing for a number of reasons:www.myspace.com/my_lipgloss_is_poppin I have many other concerns. Madmath789 13:15, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
 * "coefficient of homogeneity" mentioned but no precise definition is in evidence.
 * "..depart from this ideal lattice form.." - not clear what is meant by 'ideal lattice form'
 * Fig. 1 - what on earth does this represent? what are the scales on the axes? etc.

Disambiguation
There are lots of pages that link here, referring to various notions of homogeneity that are not explicitly identified on this page. Many of them refer to people - cultural, demographic, ethnic homogeneity - and come from such diverse disciplines as sociology, anthropology, politics and marketing. We probably need a series of articles to cover these various notions - but how many? The same is undoubtedly true of heterogeneity as well.--RichardVeryard 23:28, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Homogeneous (matter)
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is also used to define one set of properties.

Homogeneous vs. Homogenous
There seems to be some confusion in this article between the words "homogeneous" and "homogenous".

Homogeneous is the more commom term and it means “of the same kind or structure, of like composition”. Homogenous is used in biology to mean two organisms that are similar because of a common ancestry (as opposed to homoplasious which means similar becasue of a common environment)

teri ma ka bhosda —Preceding unsigned comment added by Special:Contributions/ (talk)

Indeed, would it not be more appropriate to either split of homogenous which deals with a more specific case, or perhaps have it as a subsection at the end of the page? In any case all articles on this subject probably need checking, the article about homogeneity in Physics incorrectly uses homogenous throughout most of the article when homogeneous is actually correct. This page clarifies the difference http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1114842/ TomGibsonUK (talk) 13:02, 19 April 2010 (UTC)