Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Beryllium sulfite

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The result was delete. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 22:16, 18 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Beryllium sulfite[edit]

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Refs are only database entries subject to echo-chamber/circlular-ref, or refs that do not mention it at all. Hoax (or at best a mistake being amplified). DMacks (talk) 20:58, 11 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. DMacks (talk) 20:58, 11 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete unless someone can give a good reason otherwise. I found a couple sources that talk about this. this brief piece from NIST says "only a small amount of work has been done on the BeSO₃ system... From aqueous solutions prepared by dissolving beryllium hydroxide in sulfurous acid, no neutral sulfite can be crystallized (1,2)." And Encyclopedia of the Alkaline Earth Compounds says "Beryllium sulfite would have the formula... There is no scientific data that beryllium sulfite even exists as no studies have documented such a salt." So I guess it seems like something that could exist (as many things can in chemistry), but its existence has not been observed. Chris857 (talk) 23:47, 11 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Merge and Redirect to sulfurous acid. With a specialty encyclopedia having a dedicated entry on it, I do think we should cover it. However, since it is really more of a theoretical chemical I see no reason why it couldn't just be briefly covered in the article on sulfurous acid rather than being a stand alone article.4meter4 (talk) 01:49, 12 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as it has not been reported as a solid that was actually made. And there are very few publications on the theoretical material. If there is any mention at sulfurous acid or sulfite, it could say that the beryllium salt is not known. Note that "Chemistry of the Elements" does not mention the substance. And the reference I added to supply a CASNo mentions that it has not been made. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 11:22, 12 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - one source giving a paragraph saying that it isn't known to exist, but if it did this is how you would make it, isn't really substantive coverage, just someone filling out the entire grid of possibilities. No basis for notability on its own, and unless we are going to have a whole section on sulfurous acid dedicated to all of the types that doen't exist it all seems rather pointless to merge and redirect. Agricolae (talk) 18:35, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I'm persuaded by the arguments above that this shouldn't have a stand-alone article, and unlike Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/OgTs₄, I don't think there is a good merge target here (none of beryllium, sulfite, or sulfurous acid seem appropriate). TompaDompa (talk) 18:48, 18 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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