Talk:Kendrick mass scale

Orignal research/merge
See Talk:Kendrick_mass --Kkmurray (talk) 13:55, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

No OR, since the cited article does define the unit Kendrick with symbol Ke. It says:
 * [...] It simplifies the interpretation of a complex organic mass spectrum by expressing the mass of hydrocarbon molecules in Kendrick units (where m(12CH2) = 14 Ke) instead of Dalton (where m(12C) = 12 Da) (Kendrick, 1963). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kehrli (talk • contribs) 23:21, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

I merged the content of Kendrick mass into this article. I also mentioned the shortcomings of the view expressed in the Kendrick mass text. I tried to do this as good as possible in an objective way. The content of Kendrick mass has the following shortcomings: Kehrli (talk) 02:05, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Mass indicated in Da is referred to as "SI mass" which is outrageous considering that Da is explicitly a mass unit "outside the SI"
 * The conversion formula is wrong. It implies that a molecule gains mass when expressing its mass in Kendrick mass scale. This is also outrageous. It is like a person would get fatter when he changes from a kg scale to a lbs scale. This is of course absolute nonsense. He does not get fatter, he just gets a larger numerical reading.
 * The third error is more formal: a dimensioned quantity needs to be indicated as Q = n * unit. These are the rules according to ISO and therefore also by law.