Talk:Gemstone-like molecular element

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Current situation:

Terminology needs to be made more consistent!!
Maybe like so (with same order respectively):

"Compound" as in "constituted out of several disjunct parts".
Also this needs a Venn diagram!

Two dimensions with each two options make four cases:

  • diamondoid or not
  • compound element or single part

For now keep eventual discussions of the other two possible dimensions on page.

  • structural-element vs machine-element dimension and
  • size-scale dimension

Apm (talk) 18:45, 9 August 2021 (CEST)


New problem:
"Molecular machine elements" may consist out of several "crystolecules".
That is a single "Molecular machine elements" may not be a single monolithic fully covalently connected "crystolecule block"
but instead by a reversibly or irreversibly shape locked conglomerate of "crystolecules".
Thus some parts of this pages need to be split off.

The question is: Where should the existing links be redirected to? I guess:

  • existing links should generally stay directed to "Gemstone-like molecular element".
  • current links Links to "crystolecule" should be replaced by "gem-gum element"
  • "crystolecule" should become a new page that describes individual non-covalently bonded parts of "Gemstone-like molecular machine elements"

Apm (talk) 11:26, 9 April 2021 (CEST)


TODO: Discuss separability of structural elements and machine elements

  • sigma bond bearing as machine element ...
  • machine element parts ar structural elements ...

Move machine elements and structural elements out on their own pages

  • page becomes too long
  • wanted to reference those two separately from outside repeatedly