Talk:Phosphorus sesquisulfide

Article name
I think the IUPAC name of P4S3 is tetraphosphorus trisulfide. This should also be the title of the article. So far as I know, IUPAC systematic names never use "sesqui-". If there is no objection, I will enter these changes when I get around to it. Dr Thermo (talk) 02:08, 11 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Please seek the opinions of other chemists at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemistry before renaming this article. We have recently been discussing IUPAC names and the titles of articles. The general rule for article titles is "use the most common name" - which very often means a non-IUPAC name. From a quick Google search, I see that phosphorus sesquisulfide appears to be four times as common as tetraphosphorus trisulfide, which is probably why this article is so named.


 * Ben (talk) 10:25, 11 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Fair enough, but I will take the liberty of providing the correct IUPAC name.
 * Dr Thermo (talk) 03:54, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

How Do you Make This?
It appears that there was an industrial process developed to make this chemical (in the UK, 1899, Albright & Wilson)... what was it/is it? ~ender 2012-04-11 10:06:AM MST

IUPAC name
3,5,7-trithia-1,2,4,6-tetraphosphatricyclo[2.2.1.01,6]heptane??? Surely this is a joke of some kind? 2.103.38.81 (talk) 19:47, 13 October 2013 (UTC)


 * What's the punch-line? How could this possibly be funny? Plasmic Physics (talk) 22:51, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Confusing (comment about tag)
In the intro. First it says that "It was developed by Henri Sevene and Emile David Cahen in 1898", then it says "The compound was discovered by G. Lemoine i 1898" - of course both could be true. But then it should be that Lemoine discovered it (from where?), and Sevene and Cahen "developed" it Christian75 (talk) 12:40, 16 October 2013 (UTC)


 * I'll look at it over the weekend and try and expand the article. The Lede has more detail than the body of the article, which is not the correct approach. The lede should summarise what is in the body of the article. I suspect that Lemoine discovered that such a compound existed, probably by "playing around" / experimenting with sulfur and phosphorus; Henri Sevene and Emile David Cahen found a way of making it in small quantities (or perhaps used it in matches) and Albright and Wilson made it commercially. I added the bit about Albright and Wilson, which probably also means that I have some info on Henri Sevene and Emile David Cahen. Pyrotec (talk) 17:13, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

1989 production
Is this a typo or is the amount produced in 1989 the only time that is able to be referenced? It seems that it would be more helpful to list previous and current production if available. 184.98.205.15 (talk) 20:16, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
 * It's the data we got from the book. Yes, many years out of date, but the thought was that that out of date number was better than none, at least readers have some idea of scale.  --Smokefoot (talk) 00:46, 26 November 2015 (UTC)