Talk:Oxygen evolution

A fact from Oxygen evolution appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 March 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that for more than a century, the oxygen we breathe was thought to evolve from carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, but later proven to be split from water molecules instead?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/March.

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Something funny about all this[edit]

I think there is something funny about this article. I have a gut feeling its all BS. Anyone care to comment on this?

71.81.46.119 23:14, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A search for "oxygen evolution" on Google gives 274,000 hits, on Google Scholar 16,900 hits, and on Google books still 794 hits. Searching with the term on PubMed brings up 834 scientific publications. You should be able to find it in any plant physiology textbook under the light reactions of photosynthesis. Feel free to use those sources to confirm it for yourself. - tameeria 00:14, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Article title?[edit]

This title might confuse people into thinking this has something to do with Darwin's infamous theory.

Is there a better title that can be used for this article? --RucasHost 00:40, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is a text book term and has been extensively used in scientific literature (also see my comment above). The meaning of the term evolution in physics and chemistry is "giving off heat or gas" so "oxygen evolution" is applied to every process that is giving off oxygen. Just because the term "evolution" is also associated with the concept of natural selection (aka "Darwin's infamous theory") does not negate its other meanings. I see no reason to search for some sort of neologism to replace a well-established scientific term just to avoid the "E-word" in the title. - tameeria 17:07, 14 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Warning "Failed to parse ..."[edit]

There was a "Failed to parse (Cannot write to or create math output directory): \longrightarrow" worning in the article.

I've added a {{broken}} template (I'm not sure that this template is very proper; I was not able to find a more proper one), and then the "fialed to parse" warning have gone away (as "my" {{broken}} had fixed it ... I can not understand how ...) --ChemicalBit (talk) 16:35, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is a specific case of gas evolution[edit]

Oxygen evolution is a specific case of gas evolution from a solution due to chemical or physical means. Thus, carbon dioxide can also "evolve" from a solution, resulting in bubbles escaping from the solution. Someday I'll create the overarching page. Jed (talk) 18:16, 27 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]