Talk:CAS registry number
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[edit] Name
I think the full name is Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Number, so I redirected it here. Should the article be moved to the full name? The abbreviated name is far more common. -- Kjkolb 09:44, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
- Cas.org itself uses the registered trademark "CAS Registry Number®". I'd say keep it. The capitalization doesn't match though. However since it will usually be used descriptively in the articles and not as a proper noun, that seems fine too for our purposes. Femto 14:10, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
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- Okay, thanks. I've been working on topics that other encyclopedias and other sources have and Wikipedia doesn't, so I've been asking a lot of questions on talk pages when I'm not sure about something. :-) Kjkolb 16:04, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Categorizing chemical substances and providing structures as data files
In my opinion all chemical substances should be provided as data files, preferably as (compressed) Chemical Markup Language and/or Chemical table files including all informations, like CAS, physicochemical data, etc. All those entries should be categorized, which will allow any mining scheme to collect informations from those files.
JKW 15:17, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Well, did they?
"The Chemical Abstracts Service has announced on its web site that it will add an additional digit to new CAS registry numbers, starting about January 2008." It's November 2008 now, did they add the digit? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr-spangle (talk • contribs) 19:50, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
