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Articles At Work On

Astronomy

Music

Chemistry -Chemical Elements

Geography

  • Developing Article Prague: "Capital city of the Czech Republic and, historically, capital of the medieval Bohemian kingdom." [e]
  • Stub Charles Bridge: 14th century bridge in Prague. [e]
  • Stub Melbourne: Capital city of the state of Victoria, Australia. [e]
  • Stub Metronome, Letna Hill: Large reverse pendulum, in Prague, the Czech Republic, built on Letna Hill 1991 by artist David Černý for a national fair. [e]

History

Law

  • Stub Jurisprudence: Philosophy and theory of law and legal judgment. [e]
  • Developing Article European Community Law: Unique legal system which operates alongside the laws of Member States of the European Community, and has direct effect within the legal systems of its Member States. [e]
  • Stub Constitution: A set of rules that are the ultimate source of legal authority and powers for a state. [e]

Linguistics

Psychology

Visual Arts

Theme Weeks

Theme Weeks: There are various 'world days' and events that are coming up that inspire me to get some biographies, collections of works or just some articles. Feel free to check in on this list, add your own, or collaborate with me when these articles go live.

World Poetry Day (March 21)

(A range of some of my favourites, to those who feature heavily in my library for various reasons; focus here will be on world poets as I am sure that the more famous classic poets will be already covered by fellow Citizens)

Anna Akhmatova


František Branislav

František Branislav, born 16 March 1900 in Beroun, Czechoslovakia, died 25 July 1968 in Prague. Czech poet, children's author and translator of Scandanavian works. He translated Nettenes natt (Night of all Nights) by Norwegian poet Bjorn Rongen and also wrote a study on the Swedish language.

Works[1]

Poetry: Bílý kruh (1924), Na rozcestí (1927), Větrná růžice (1930), Na houslích jara, podzimu... (1933), Věčná země (1939), Dým ke hvězdám (1940), Pozdrav Polsku (1950), Milostný nápěv (1951), Krásná láska (1952), Večer u studny (1955), Prsten na cestu (1957), Cesta přátelství (úvod a verše k fotografiím z cesty A. Novotného do SSSR, 1958), Věnec z trávy (1960), Moře (1961), Řecká sonatina (1962), Divertimento a kantiléna (1964), Sluneční kámen (1969), Ezopovy bajky (1973)

Childrens' Poetry: Píseň dětství (1952), Zlatý déšť (1955), Hliněný džbánek (1957), Zelené roky (1959), Přijďte k nám, muzikanti (1960), Naše a vaše (1960), Ratolístka (1961), Modrý oblázek (1962), Ryby, rybky, rybičky (1963), Malá říkadla (1963), Polní růžičky (1966), Hodina zvonů (výbor, 1989), Básně dětem (soub. vyd., 1971, 3 sv.)

S uzlíčkem stříbra (1947), Básně (1953), Lyrika (1957), Verše (1960), Básně (1968), Pramen pod hvězdami (1975), Tiše sním (1979), Uzlíček stříbra (1980), Z rosy a studánek (1980)

Translations: Bjorn Rongen: Noc všech nocí (1951) (English for: Night of all Nights) Bjorn Rongen was a Norwegian poet, who published Nettenes natt in 1940.

Compilations: Věrnému vojáku Jonášovi (sb. na pamět J. Jonáše, velitele české legionářské roty Nazdar, 1928, s A. Rážem a F. Hamplem), Básnický almanach 1958 (1959)

Charles Baudelaire

Paul Eluard

Solomon Ibn Gabriol

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

James Joyce

Louise Labe

Primo Levi

Federico Garcia Lorca

Antonio Machado

Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé (March 18, 1842 – September 9, 1898), born Étienne Mallarmé. French poet, critic and leader of the Symbolist movement with Paul Verlaine.

Works

Mallarmé, Stéphane. Igitur/ Divagations/ un Coup de Des, French & European Pubns (1976)


Bibliography

Remembering the Sound of Words: Mallarmé, Proust, Joyce, Beckett by Adam Piette (1996);

Jane Mayo Roos, Jeanine Parisier Plottel, Mary Ann Caws, and Yves Bonnetoy. A Painter's Poet: Stephane Mallarme & His Impressionist Circle (1999)

Thomas A Williams. Mallarme and the Language of Mysticism


Pablo Neruda

Octavio Paz

Adelia Prado

Salvatore Quasimodo

Rainer Maria Rilke

Arthur Rimbaud

Friedrich von Schiller

Alfonsina Storni

Paul Valery

Paul Verlaine

Francois Villon

2008: International Year of ...

Green Earth

Languages

Sanitation

Potato


Other things on my List

La Oreja de Van Gogh - Favourite Band, Write-A-Thon Sep 2008

Australian Ballet

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Jiri Kylian - choreographer

Prague Castle

Something about toll road infrastructure, design, management ... etc. such as, what is a gantry and how does electronic tolling differ from satellite tolling and how is that an improvement on manual tolling?

Question of the day?

Apparently a four year old asks 450 questions a day. How many questions am I short, and from where in Citizendium can I find the answers?

Hallowe'en is coming up. What is the origins of this tradition? How is it celebrated? How many 'spooky' tangents can I come up with from this topic?

Science and Law In The News

or stuff that I just find interesting


Spring Cleaning - Chemistry

Chemical Elements to get a start on

(from Special:Wanted Pages)

Template:Elem Infobox What I need to get started

  • Note to self - create redirect from colour to color, former does not yet have a page.

Colour in transition metals

Transition metal complexes are usually coloured. The colour results from absorption of photons in the visible region of light.

Substances that appear black absorb all wavelengths of light in the visible spectrum. Those that appear white reflect all wavelengths. Substances that appear colourless absorb light in the infrared or ultraviolet regions of the light spectrum, therefore do not appear coloured to the human eye. All cations, anions and oxoanions of the representative elements are colourless.

This can be explained by the octahedral geometry of complex ions, and by the location of atomic orbitals in the d shell.

(diagram needed - complex ion with d orbitals between the axes)

(animation - seems to capture idea best - electron approaching d orbitals, splitting energy between orbitals closer to the ligands and those further away)

Transition metals that are coloured are those who have partially filled d orbitals. Colourless complexes of transition metals are those which have no d electrons present, for example Sc3+, or when all d orbitals are filled. It is only partially filled d orbitals that result in colour because there is space for an electron to be promoted from the lower energy d orbitals to the higher energy d orbitals.


An example of colours produced by some transition complexes is below.


Table: Colours of the hydrated complex ions of the first transition series.[2] (Note to self - [| this how one makes a table]

Colour Ions and number of 3d electrons
Colourless Sc3+ (0) Cu+ (10) Zn2+ (10)
Red Co2+ (7) Mn2+ (5)
Green Fe2+ (6) Ni2+ (8) V3+ (2) Cr3+ (3)
Purple Ti3+ (1)
Violet V2+ (3) Cr3+ (3) Mn3+ (4) Fe3+ (5)
Blue Cr2+ (4) Co3+ (6) Cu2+ (9)
Yellow [FeCl]2+ (5)


The energy difference Δ is called the crystal-field splitting energy.

ΔE = hv = hc/λ = splitting energy = Δ

Within transition metals Δ is often in the range found in the frequencies of visible light. This means that an electron can be excited from one of the lower-energy d orbitals to a higher energy d orbital by visible light.

Complementary colours - definition

Complementary colours are two colours that combine to produce white light. Therefore if a substance only absorbs a wavelength, it will reflect the wavelength of the complementary colour and appear that colour to the eyes. For example, permanganate appears purple because it absorbs green light.

Absorbed wavelength in nm (colour) Observed colour
400 (violet) Greenish yellow
450 (blue) Yellow
490 (blue-green) Red
570 (yellow-green) Violet
580 (yellow) Dark blue
600 (orange) Blue
650 (red) Green


The presence of transition metals in gemstones results in the varied colours of gems.

Crystal-field splitting theory

Crystal-field theory is a theory of chemical bonding, first explored by physicists in the early 1930s in relation to the spectra of ionic crystals.

A limitation of crystal-field theory is that it cannot explain the colour spectrum of complex ions or the splitting order of all ligands.

Applications

Wavelength absorption and emission by atoms is used in spectroscopy to identify elements.

  1. František Branislav biography (Czech)
  2. Fundamentals of Chemistry, Fourth Ed.