A Note on the Term "Chalcogen"Click to copy article linkArticle link copied!
Abstract
After summarizing the suggestions of various textbook authors as to the meaning of the term chalcogen, including "chalk former," "calx former," "chain former," "brass giver," and "copper producing," it is argued that the best translation is "ore former." It is further suggested that the term chalcogenide should be replaced with the term chalcide in order to maintain a parallelism with the terms halogen and halide. Some older class-descriptors for the group-16 elements are also discussed.
Cited By
Smart citations by scite.ai include citation statements extracted from the full text of the citing article. The number of the statements may be higher than the number of citations provided by ACS Publications if one paper cites another multiple times or lower if scite has not yet processed some of the citing articles.
This article is cited by 14 publications.
- Chunqi Zheng, Robert E. Simpson, Kechao Tang, Yujie Ke, Arash Nemati, Qing Zhang, Guangwei Hu, Chengkuo Lee, Jinghua Teng, Joel K.W. Yang, Junqiao Wu, Cheng-Wei Qiu. Enabling Active Nanotechnologies by Phase Transition: From Electronics, Photonics to Thermotics. Chemical Reviews 2022, 122
(19)
, 15450-15500. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.2c00171
- Miguel Reina, Hervé This, Antonio Reina. Improving the Understanding of Chemistry by Using the Right Words: A Clear-Cut Strategy to Avoid Misconceptions When Talking about Elements, Atoms, and Molecules. Journal of Chemical Education 2022, 99
(8)
, 2999-3006. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00411
- Geoff Rayner-Canham . Why Don’t We Really Teach about the Periodic Table?. 2020, 69-77. https://doi.org/10.1021/bk-2020-1371.ch006
- P.D. Patel, N.N. Prajapati, H.M. Patel, S.P. Sikligar, P.B. Patel, H.N. Desai, J.M. Dhimmar, B.P. Modi. Growth and characterizations of indium doped tin diselenide (In
x
Sn
1
−
x
)Se
2
crystals. Journal of Crystal Growth 2025, 649 , 127913. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2024.127913
- A. Israr, Q. Alam, B. Amin, Saleh Muhammad, Ali Ahmad. Electronic structure, optical and elastic properties of Si doped Strontium Selenide: A theoretical investigation. Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 2024, 171 , 107901. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mssp.2023.107901
- Hanming Zhu, Yingkai Liu, Decong Li, Kunyong Kang. Multi-chalcogenides CuAg-II-IV-VI: a first-principles exploration of promising absorbing materials for solar cell applications. Physica Scripta 2024, 99
(2)
, 025925. https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/ad1962
- R.M. Arif Khalil, Muhammad Iqbal Hussain, A.M. Rana, Fayyaz Hussain, Neelam Inam, H.H. Somaily, Shafqat Hayat. First principles study of the structural, optoelectronic and mechanical properties of XLaS2 (X Cu, Zn) for optoelectronic applications. Optik 2022, 258 , 168940. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijleo.2022.168940
- B. Silva-Gaspar, R. Martinez-Franco, G. Pirngruber, A. Fécant, U. Diaz, A. Corma. Open-Framework Chalcogenide Materials - from isolated clusters to highly ordered structures - and their photocalytic applications. Coordination Chemistry Reviews 2022, 453 , 214243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccr.2021.214243
- Mohammad Mansoob Khan. Introduction and fundamentals of chalcogenides and chalcogenides-based nanomaterials. 2021, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-820498-6.00001-9
- Woohyun Lee, Sandip V. Mulay, Shingo Shimodaira, Ariq Abdillah, Jaymee Palma, Youngsam Kim, Tesla Yudhistira, David G. Churchill. Didactic approach recounting advances and limitations in novel glutathione and cysteine detection (reduced GSH probe) with mixed coumarin, aldehyde, and phenyl–selenium chemistry. 2020, 267-289. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.mie.2020.04.072
- Alexander V Kolobov, Paul Fons. Insights into the physics and chemistry of chalcogenides obtained from x-ray absorption spectroscopy. Semiconductor Science and Technology 2017, 32
(12)
, 123003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6641/aa9170
- Pravin Kumar Singh, D. K. Dwivedi. Chalcogenide glass: Fabrication techniques, properties and applications. Ferroelectrics 2017, 520
(1)
, 256-273. https://doi.org/10.1080/00150193.2017.1412187
- Alexander V. Kolobov, Junji Tominaga. Chemistry of Chalcogenides and Transition Metals. 2016, 7-27. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31450-1_2
- Matthew C. Kuchta, Gerard Parkin. Terminal chalcogenido complexes of Group 13 and 14 elements. Coordination Chemistry Reviews 1998, 176
(1)
, 323-372. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0010-8545(98)00123-4
Article Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.
Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.
The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated.