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Jan 19, 2011 04:32
13 yrs ago
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English term

CO2

Non-PRO English Other Advertising / Public Relations
Please advise the correct way to write CO2 for example to cut CO2 emission output by 500 kg per week...
Responses
5 +7 CO subscript 2
5 +5 carbon dioxide
4 +2 carbon (emissions)
Change log

Jan 19, 2011 05:49: Edith Kelly changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"

Votes to reclassify question as PRO/non-PRO:

Non-PRO (3): Sharon Toh, MITI MCIL, Sandra & Kenneth Grossman, Edith Kelly

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Discussion

MMUlr Jan 19, 2011:
Dear Moderators, have mercy with the following statement ... but considering the contributions of both answerers and commentators, and this lively discussion, I must say, I don't feel very comfortable when KudoZians help promptly and give advice to someone who has not taken a few minutes to just provide some personal or job details. :-(
Carol Gullidge Jan 19, 2011:
you can do away with "output"! "emission output" is tautology! Simply "cut .... emissions" is all that is needed here.
Sharon Toh, MITI MCIL Jan 19, 2011:
Btw, I have just noticed that this question was asked under the category of Advertising / Public Relations. For this kind of texts, I think the full name carbon dioxide should be spelt out.
José J. Martínez Jan 19, 2011:
Edith, in addition to my last comment, I am a Biochemical Engineer but not a Chemist, just took enough formal chemistry courses to graduate.
José J. Martínez Jan 19, 2011:
Edith, in NO way did I insult YOU or imply that you did not know chemistry. I said that I found it difficult for a person doing that job did not know anything regarding CO2. Please, by the nature of the question, I think the asker is empirical, not everyone is a chemist or took chemistry in higher levels of school but I remember Carbon Dioxide since I was in 3rd grade.
Edith Kelly Jan 19, 2011:
Sharon I fully agree with you. I simply answered to Jose's remark that I "have no knowledge of carbon dioxide or its chemical formula" which is - IMO - a slight insult, and you do not need to be a chemist to answer that question.l
Sharon Toh, MITI MCIL Jan 19, 2011:
@Edith Let's let the asker decide for himself/herself which is the answer he/she is asking for. If he/she is writing a report for public circulation, to me, the full name of CO2 (carbon dioxide) should be spelt out. If he/she is seeking the way to write the chemical formula, you are of course right. From what I see, there's no clear indication in the question that he/she is seeking the way to write the chemical formula (although that could have been the case). He/she may just want to know which is the correct/appropriate way of writing.

Besides, there's no need to be a chemist to know how to write the chemical formula CO2. Anyone who has studied Chemistry in school will know that--you don't need to study Advanced Chemistry to know how to write CO2.
Edith Kelly Jan 19, 2011:
I did not know Jose that you were a chemist Chemistry happens to be one of my specialities, and it is mostly wirtten capitalised CO plus subscript 2. It is also written carbon dioxide, I agree with you, but this was not the question.
Sharon Toh, MITI MCIL Jan 19, 2011:
I agree with Jose. Besides, the correct way to write is: to cut carbon dioxide emission output by 500kg per week...
José J. Martínez Jan 19, 2011:
You are entitled to disagree with me but I find it very difficult for someone that has no knowledge of Carbon Dioxide or its chemical formula to be writing about it. C'mon, and this with all respect to you and the asker, is water water or H2O or H subscript2 O, or Hydrogen subscript two Oxygen ...or what? Please let's not get carried away in inventing the wheel...possibly the question was not properly formulated and maybe, just maybe my answer is wrong.

Responses

+7
47 mins
Selected

CO subscript 2

is the only right way.
CO2 is sometimes used when people are sloppy but this is not correct.
Peer comment(s):
agree Siegfried Armbruster
2 hrs
agree Phong Le
3 hrs
agree Cilian O'Tuama : this answers the Q, capital CO subscript 2
4 hrs
agree Rolf Keiser
4 hrs
agree jccantrell : With Cilian from the USA.
10 hrs
agree Rachel Fell
13 hrs
agree James Lupton : Don't understand why this controversial: CO and subscript 2
999 days
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
+5
1 min

carbon dioxide

Basic chemistry
Peer comment(s):
agree Filippe Vasconcellos de Freitas Guimarães : I don't quite get the asker's question... "2" should be in subscript (smaller type, below the baseline) if writing as the formula.
13 mins
Thank you colleagues, but I think this was just an excercise in futility.
disagree Edith Kelly : please read the question carefully, this has not been asked
46 mins
Thank you colleagues, but I think this was just an excercise in futility.
agree Sharon Toh, MITI MCIL : Exactly. Besides, the proper way of writing is to spell out in full (carbon dioxide).
55 mins
Thank you colleagues, but I think this was just an excercise in futility.
agree BrigitteHilgner : I don't quite understand what the asker wants but I dare say this is a correct answer.
1 hr
Thank you colleagues, but I think this was just an excercise in futility.
agree Phong Le
3 hrs
Thank you colleagues, but I think this was just an excercise in futility.
agree Polangmar
6 hrs
Thank you colleagues, but I think this was just an excercise in futility.
agree Giovanni Pizzati (X) : Ok, that's true chemistry!
8 hrs
Thank you colleagues, but I think this was just an excercise in futility.
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+2
2 hrs

carbon (emissions)

"Carbon emissions" is a very common expressions in non technical texts.
See: http://www.google.com/search?q="carbon emissions"&ie=utf-8&o...
for references.
Peer comment(s):
agree Phong Le
1 hr
Thank you Phong Le :-)
agree Carol Gullidge : yes, reduce carbon emmissions!
2 hrs
Totally agree! Thank you Carol :-)
neutral Edith Kelly : though the answer is correct, it is NOT an answer to the question.
2 hrs
neutral Polangmar : The question is about CO2 and the sentence is only an example: "for example to cut CO2 emission".
4 hrs
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