Talk:Methylene (compound)

Preferred IUPAC name

The article states that the PIN for this compound is "carbene." However, looking through my copy of the recommendations, it seems as if "methylidene" is preferred; is this an error in the article, or is my copy outdated? LegionMammal978 (talk) 13:01, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Discovery and preparation by Donald Duck

Looking at the history of this page, I see that in the section titled "Discovery and preparation" there has been the repeated introduction and removal of a comment about Donald Duck. Just because Donald Duck says "If I mix CH2 with NH4 and boil the atoms in osmotic fog, I should get speckled nitrogen" doesn't mean it has anything to do with the topic of this article. Donald Duck has no more relevance to to this article than to ammonium ("NH4") or osmosis ("osmotic fog") or nitrogen ("speckled nitrogen") - silly fictional made up sciency-sounding things have nothing more than an entirely coincidental connection to these actual topics. ChemNerd (talk) 17:47, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

I think that this factoid should be included in a popular culture section. But don't say that Donald Duck discovered it. It may be a coincidence that it is this topic, but it happens to be. The point is for those that watch the cartoon, and can then find out the reality. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 23:38, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Even aside from the merit/demerit of including the Donald Duck factoid, the section as written makes no grammatical sense: “mentioned for the first time by Donald Duck in a comic in 1944”. Is this the first time (out of presumably many?) that DD mentioned it? Or is it the first time anybody had mentioned it in a comic (which hardly seems a noteworthy feat)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.26.20.113 (talk) 09:33, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

Apparently the first time CH
₂ (rather than >CH
₂ or =CH
₂) was mentioned by anybody.

I have moved this to a "In popular culture" section, as suggested here. Qflib (talk) 14:33, 26 June 2024 (UTC)