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gperiodic package

gPeriodic missreports Lithium melting point

Bug #160424 reported by Miguel Martinez
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gperiodic (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

Title says it all: The melting point of Li at ambient pressure is 453.69 K [1,2], while gperiodic misreports it at 553 K. This should be fixed even if we are probably switching to gelemental as per bug #145169. I will later open a bug at Debian and sync it with this one.

[1] "Solid State Physics" by N.W. Ashcroft and N. D. Mermin states Tm=453 K in the periodic table on the back cover.
[2] Webelements, which is also the reference of wikipedia. http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/text/Li/heat.html

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) wrote :

I can confirm that this is reported correctly by gelemental.

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Daniel Leidert (dleidert-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Thanks for the report. No need to open a bug report at Debian - I'm subcribed to the package at launchpad (as you can see).

An updated package wll be available soon.

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Miguel Martinez (el-quark) wrote :

OK, thanks for all your comments. In any case, I'd still like to see this fixed in Debian (which I'm also using) or in any other distro, for that matter.

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Daniel Leidert (dleidert-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I'm the Debian maintainer (I'm not responsible for Ubuntu packages). So it will be fixed in Debian (and then normally synced to Ubuntu). For other distros: There is another data bug in gperiodic, that has already been reported to upstream. I will send another mail to upstream regarding this issue.

So you can be sure, the issue is addressed.

Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)
Changed in gperiodic:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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Daniel Leidert (dleidert-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Thsis had been fixed in gperiodic 2.0.10-2.

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Daniel Leidert (dleidert-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Closing.

Changed in gperiodic:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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