Talk:Magnesium fluoride

from VfD:

This article doesn't provide any useful information about Magnesium Fluoride aside from its formula, which can be determined from its name. Unless the article contains information about its special properties or uses, I don't see a point of having it, as we could just as easily have an article like this for the other ten million compounds. -- Chessphoon 22:17, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)

It was listed as a "requested page" which is why I created it, including only what I knew. But now that you mention it, I suppose you're right. I'll vote to delete it, unless someone has more information. --MatrixFrog 22:25, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Keep. I've expanded the substub into a stub, will work on it further over the next few days. Yes we could have millions of articles on compounds. As long as those articles are capabable of being made encylopedic, we should have them. Theresa Knott (taketh no rest) 22:45, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep - perfectly fine stub, now. Sould be Magnesium fluoride (uncapitalized) though. TPK 00:54, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * I would have loved to say keep as I want meaningful chemistry articles, but Magnesium fluoride is just not a significant chemical. As far as I know, it's just a random salt.  If anyone can come up with some meaningful uses for the chemical, please add to it. Delete with reserve --G3pro 01:00, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * It probably isn't significant chemically, but it has useful physical properties, which make it important enough for an article. Theresa Knott (taketh no rest) 01:24, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep good stub. 8000 Google hits on "magnesium fluoride" in quotes, many optical applications in addition to AR coatings. This sort of stub is quite likely to grow. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 01:03, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Current stub is fine. Thue | talk 15:21, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. --G3pro 15:26, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep Major importance in high-energy laser develpment, much research going on in this area (yes, I'll write it up & add it later when I have time)- it's an important component of a lot of new research & industrial lasers, & is going to have increasing notabiliy if someone notices how much the US military is spending on it for their non-working missile defense project. -FZ 17:42, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Now that the article has been expanded, I'm going to vote keep as well. -- Chessphoon 00:30, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Good example of a VfD rescue.  Antandrus 00:44, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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Irtran-1 ambiguity
"...it was sometimes known by the Eastman Kodak trademark Irtran-1 but this term is quite obsolete".

"Quite" is ambiguous: does it mean "fairly" or "utterly"? In either case, I would say this adverb is redundant: if it is "fairly obsolete" then it should be described as obsolescent or dated; if it is "utterly obsolete", then it is simply obsolete. No qualifying adverb is necessary in either case. &mdash; Paul G 08:41, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

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The picture in the info box
The details state it is titanium dioxide. Is this not wrong? TVGarfield (talk) 03:21, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

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but WHY is it put on lenses?
we see in the article that it is put on lenses. please someone add: WHY? Cramyourspam (talk) 03:02, 13 April 2018 (UTC)