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Improving Mindat.orgChemical Formular Karibibite

7th Sep 2017 16:42 UTCAndreas Schmid

The published Formular for Karibibite Fe3+(As3+O2)4(As3+2O5)(OH) is wrong. The same mistake occurred in the last LAPIS magazine. Wondering who copied. :-)

Maybe somebody could correct that mistake

7th Sep 2017 16:53 UTCAndreas Schmid

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7th Sep 2017 16:57 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager

What's wrong exactly?

Compare the abstract: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/minsoc/mag/pre-prints/content-minmag-1308r;jsessionid=uegduu0ljkv5.x-ic-live-03

7th Sep 2017 17:48 UTCTravis Olds Expert

Subscript for 3 Fe3+ atoms is missing, but also missing in the abstract.

7th Sep 2017 19:02 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager

Thanks, Travis. Fixed.

That's the problem when journals put abstracts online before the authors had a chance to proof-read them (a policy which had caused me problems as well with a paper, and will lead to perpetuating such errors). Checking proofs usually doesn't take much more than a few days or a week, so why hurry ...?

EDIT: Typo.

7th Sep 2017 20:52 UTCTravis Olds Expert

Agreed. Sometimes when you upload the abstract (by copy & paste) it doesn't preserve formatting, but in that case it would be Fe33+ or something. I guess just a simple mistake that multiple people made, but it's a really nice paper using advanced techniques!

10th Sep 2017 20:43 UTCŁukasz Kruszewski Expert

Fe3+(As3+O2)4(As3+2O5)(OH) is exactly what is written in the abstract, and I am the one who has copied it (-; There is an evident error in the Fe amount - it should be 3.

14th Sep 2017 10:45 UTCHelen Kerbey

Hello, thanks for spotting this. I've attempted to change the abstract, however there is no facility to add any sub or superscripts so I've put in a comma. Hopefully it is okay like this?

We have control over the contents of the prepublications page at MinMag so you can always let us know. They are just copy and paste from the submitted abstracts in pdf form, in this case the actual paper is correct, it was just a copy and paste error from copying from a pdf.