Talk:Uranate

A fact from Uranate appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 February 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that uranates have been used to add various colors to glass (example pictured)?

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How is this word pronounced??? Stonemason89 (talk) 13:12, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Go ahead and snicker, but looking at how other compounds are pronounced in terms of stress, it's the same pronunciation as "urinate". Which is why it's here. 72.178.12.19 (talk) 01:09, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thing this is funny, take a look at the others there. Kausill (Talk) (Contribs) 14:02, 19 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Article for deletion?[edit]

I intend to re-write this article, based on Wells, A.F (1962). Structural Inorganic Chemistry (3rd. ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0198551258. pp 966-969. However, nothing of the present article will be retained, because there is nothing in it about uranates - it's all about oxides.

Should the article first be deleted so that a clean new start can be made? I'm thinking it might then qualify for DYK Petergans (talk) 20:18, 4 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please just overwrite it. Although it is clearly off-topic, deleting it would take too much time and effort. BTW, it would qualify for DYK without 5x expansion. Materialscientist (talk) 05:26, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done! Petergans (talk) 09:27, 11 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The DYK should have been kept for Apr 1. Nergaal (talk) 17:06, 18 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Uranate[edit]

Isn't just for U(VI)? Similar to manganate, chromate, chlorate? Shouldn't 4+ or 3+ be uranite? Nergaal (talk) 17:02, 18 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Debatable. I thought I was following IUPAC in naming oxyanions as -ate(X), but I haven't checked. In any case this nomenclature is unambiguous, -ite is not. The -ite in uraninite signifies a mineral, not an oxidation state. Petergans (talk) 08:03, 19 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Soddyite, becquerelite and curite are not uranates...[edit]

... as long they contains the uranium as uranyl cation, not in an anionic form.-Luzomim (talk) 20:46, 1 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]