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Temperature vs vapour concentration under nomal pressure

When a matter changes its phase from solid to liquid and from liquid to gaseous state due to rise of temperature under a constant pressure (i.e., means without change of elevation of location), say normal atmospheric pressure in an enclosed volume, the concentration of the matter in gaseous form in that enclosure will increase from zero to a certain value till it boils(except for matters which sublimate, when there will be a concentration of the matter in gaseous form at all phases). This concentration of gaseous form will vary between matters.

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There are heavy benzenes.

So, titabenzene, zirconabenzene, cerabenzene, hafnabenzene and even plumbabenzene, thoriabenzene and the hypothetical rutherfordabenzene and flerovabenzene are (possibly) aromatic. Alfa-ketosav (talk) 18:17, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Whether such species are notable and whether they are aromatic are debatable. Such species seem (to me at least) to be of interest to a fairly small handful of academics. We have a short article on Metallabenzene.--Smokefoot (talk) 18:50, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

But we substitute only 1 CH with 1 MH, without additional ligands. Alfa-ketosav (talk) 19:04, 7 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Such things are pretty esoteric, existing only in the imagination of computational chemists. The problem one runs into is described by the double bond rule. And the use of MH (vs M-R) really limits scope. --Smokefoot (talk) 19:29, 7 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

There's been a computational chemistry study of titanabenzene at least. But it seems that it's not aromatic. Double sharp (talk) 22:22, 14 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

nazi references

The articles says nazis administered benzene injections. Not only is it using the slang "nazi" but also uses sources that come from a museum and a tourist website. Are these valid references of information for wikipedia? In my opinion it should not be and it must find valid sources and be rewritten or moved to a nazi article or be deleted all together. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:A44D:793F:1:F4D1:451:DE36:9FBB (talk) 15:03, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

While better sources would certainly be appreciated, I think that the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum is reliable enough a source to keep this in. ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 15:12, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect it is a mistranslation. Eduard Krebsbach used gasoline as an injection chemical, and gasoline translates to "benzin" in German. Benzene is less common and more expensive compared to gasoline, which would make it hard to access. --spiritprince☎ 19:17, 10 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

even ignoring the possible mistranslation raised by spiritprince, having "Genocide" under "Routes to Exposure" makes it sound like you need to avoid genocide to prevent contact with Benzene. Its not a bad message, I fucking hate the stuff, but it sounds quite silly and I laughed when I saw it. I'd bet that the vast majority of people will already try to avoid being genocided, regardless if Benzene is involved. 2604:3D09:1284:6B00:FD50:B271:F487:DEE6 (talk) 02:03, 7 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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