Talk:Concentration

From Citizendium
Revision as of 19:54, 3 February 2009 by imported>Hayford Peirce (→‎I think you're wrong about "general common usage": new section)
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This article is developing and not approved.
Main Article
Discussion
Related Articles  [?]
Bibliography  [?]
External Links  [?]
Citable Version  [?]
 
To learn how to update the categories for this article, see here. To update categories, edit the metadata template.
 Definition In science, engineering and in general common usage: the measure of how much of a given substance there is in a given mixture of substances. [d] [e]
Checklist and Archives
 Workgroup categories Engineering, Chemistry and Physics [Categories OK]
 Subgroup categories:  Chemical Engineering and Environmental Engineering
 Talk Archive none  English language variant American English

Wikipedia has an article with the same name

I was a minor contributor to the WP article. I have completely re-written, re-formatted and expanded the WP article before uploading it here into CZ. Milton Beychok 01:45, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

I think you're wrong about "general common usage"

When you write in the lede: "in general common usage, concentration is" so-and-so, I won't dispute that a fairly common usage is something like "the concentration of orange juice concentrate to water is one to three" or whatever.

A more common usage, I would submit, is "Pancho Gonzales displayed other-worldly powers of concentration as he came back from two sets down to...."

"Concentration" (and "focus") are such cliches these days that one can hardly listen to a sporting event without being battered by them on a once-a-minute basis, or so it seems to me. Hayford Peirce 01:54, 4 February 2009 (UTC)