On 10/3/05, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/3/05, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I have the phone number of my local library.
So supose I claim that "heterocycles can have many nitrogens but only
one sulfur or oxygen in any ring" and cite page 1176 Organic chemistry
Clayden, Greeves, Warren and Wothers ISBN 0-19-850346-6. Now the book
exists but your local libary may not have a copy so it takes time for
you to get it. That is quite a lot of effort (fortunetly in this case
the book is a fairly standard text book so there should be at least
one other person who has a copy). This gets really fun when someone
decides to reference something that can only be aquired from the
public records office.
Your claim of course should probably be in just about *any* advanced organic
chemistry text book.
But supposing it was something more obscure. I don't see the problem with
citations from public records or reference books available through the
public library system. These are eminently verifiable.