Talk:Residue (chemistry)

Link to German translation should be fixed

Link to German translation "Rückstand" isn't very meaningful. Link to "Organyl-Rest" would make more sense.

(Link without redirection: [[1]]) 2003:CB:BF09:FE7D:156D:3E91:AD6C:80D9 (talk) 14:40, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Advanced Writing Science 2023

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 28 August 2023 and 8 December 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): HighQualityWater (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by HighQualityWater (talk) 20:39, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

It'll be really good to have you work on this article - thank you! You'll know you've done something worth doing when you finish!

I've just trawled through all the edits, in sequence . . interesting! Not much vandalism. Over time some good new ideas came in quite early but then - perhaps the English wasn't great or something - got deleted back out again. Or mangled. As it stands the article is too short and lacks examples. Some of the lost ideas might be worth bringing back in? And the readership is tricky . . you've got undergraduates with extensive technical knowledge; you've also got schoolkids told about boiling up a cupful of seawater to see what makes it taste so funny, trying to write up the process and wanting to check if 'residue' is the right word!

Mainly, though, it's the article's structure tht has fallen apart. I think you're looking at a pretty complete rewrite (and you'll feel a lot of satisfaction doing it). Be BOLD! - if you try to sort out this article by incremental tweaks & fixes I think you'll bog down and get baulked.

The idea of the top bit is always tht it pulls together and summarises everything in the body sections. Instead, in this article, where bits of the top seem to be talking about different things ppl have just sawn off a paragraph or two by cutting in a section heading!

'Residue' is a really complex term, in the way it's used. (Most of its meanings are fairly simple. But there's a lot of them, and they're connected in sometimes surprising ways.) I think you'll find it best to open the article (= start the top) by telling the reader basically that! Then mention the obvious meaning, whatever is left after a chemical process . . which may be jst crud to chuck out somewhere, may be the actual product - actually the point of the process - and may be a by-product (valuable or not). Or a mixture! And mention tht food- and environmental-safety issues arise (but leave details / examples to the relevant body sections).

Then there's the more technical meanings, relating to molecular structure. (And there are several related terms - sidechain, substituent, residue, moiety, . . ) Some are current in chemistry generally, some are specialised (eg in biochemistry).

Organise the top like that, and the body sections will fall into place pretty sweetly, I'd think. Then there's jst links. And references, references, references!!!

They might be the hardest bit. There's a few ways of doing these, and organising them . . might be worth experimenting a bit, to see what works best for you. And get some advice at Help:Contents, the Village Pump, project groups etc.

You'll want to make your own choices about how political you want to get, with links to safety incidents. Maybe don't go there . . or keep it very very factual, and be very clear how you've chosen what articles etc to link to. 2A04:B2C2:405:EB00:9409:9286:A84F:3530 (talk) 07:33, 24 September 2023 (UTC)