[CHNOSZ-commits] r718 - in pkg/CHNOSZ: . inst vignettes

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Wed Apr 6 16:12:40 CEST 2022


Author: jedick
Date: 2022-04-06 16:12:40 +0200 (Wed, 06 Apr 2022)
New Revision: 718

Modified:
   pkg/CHNOSZ/DESCRIPTION
   pkg/CHNOSZ/inst/NEWS.Rd
   pkg/CHNOSZ/vignettes/OBIGT.Rmd
   pkg/CHNOSZ/vignettes/OBIGT.bib
Log:
Revise CH4 disclaimer in OBIGT.Rmd


Modified: pkg/CHNOSZ/DESCRIPTION
===================================================================
--- pkg/CHNOSZ/DESCRIPTION	2022-04-06 06:25:32 UTC (rev 717)
+++ pkg/CHNOSZ/DESCRIPTION	2022-04-06 14:12:40 UTC (rev 718)
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Date: 2022-04-06
 Package: CHNOSZ
-Version: 1.9.9-10
+Version: 1.9.9-11
 Title: Thermodynamic Calculations and Diagrams for Geochemistry
 Authors at R: c(
     person("Jeffrey", "Dick", , "j3ffdick at gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre"),

Modified: pkg/CHNOSZ/inst/NEWS.Rd
===================================================================
--- pkg/CHNOSZ/inst/NEWS.Rd	2022-04-06 06:25:32 UTC (rev 717)
+++ pkg/CHNOSZ/inst/NEWS.Rd	2022-04-06 14:12:40 UTC (rev 718)
@@ -32,24 +32,19 @@
     \itemize{
 
       \item Add the following \emph{Disclaimer} to the Aqueous Inorganic
-      section of \strong{OBIGT.Rmd}: The maintenance of separate data files for
-      inorganic and organic species is done only for convenience, and is not
-      meant to imply a preference for any substrate, mechanism, or process. In
-      particular, CH\s{4} (methane) is an organic compound that can also be
-      formed abiotically (\href{https://doi.org/10.1002/rog.20011}{Etiope and
-        Sherwood Lollar, 2013}). The words \emph{organic} and \emph{inorganic}
-      (for substrates), \emph{biological} and \emph{thermochemical} (for
-      mechanisms), and \emph{methanogenesis}, \emph{pyrolysis}, and
-      \emph{synthesis} (for processes) can be used to describe different
-      methane-generating pathways in nature
-      (\href{https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39312-4_166}{Strąpoć, 2018}).
-      The details of this classification system are out of scope for the OBIGT
-      database. For practical reasons, CH\s{4} is placed in the
-      \dQuote{inorganic} data files in OBIGT simply so that the database can be
-      pruned of organic compounds \emph{except} CH\s{4} by running
-      \code{OBIGT(no.organics = TRUE)}. The ability to remove hundreds of
-      less-common organic species while keeping CH\s{4} is useful for some
-      models of inorganic reactions in hydrothermal systems.
+      section of \strong{OBIGT.Rmd}: A choice has been made to put inorganic
+      and organic species into separate data files. There is a well-known
+      ambiguity owing to the slightly different usage of these \emph{-ic} words
+      in different fields. That is, while CH\s{4} (methane) is classified in
+      chemistry as an organic compound, in nature it can be derived from living
+      organisms or formed abiotically
+      (\href{https://doi.org/10.1002/rog.20011}{Etiope and Sherwood Lollar,
+        2013}) – that is, through inorganic processes. For practical reasons,
+      CH\s{4} is placed in the \dQuote{inorganic} data files in OBIGT simply so
+      that the database can be pruned of organic compounds \emph{except}
+      CH\s{4} by running \code{OBIGT(no.organics = TRUE)}. The ability to
+      remove hundreds of more complex organic compounds while keeping CH\s{4}
+      is useful for some models of inorganic reactions in hydrothermal systems.
 
     }
   }

Modified: pkg/CHNOSZ/vignettes/OBIGT.Rmd
===================================================================
--- pkg/CHNOSZ/vignettes/OBIGT.Rmd	2022-04-06 06:25:32 UTC (rev 717)
+++ pkg/CHNOSZ/vignettes/OBIGT.Rmd	2022-04-06 14:12:40 UTC (rev 718)
@@ -246,12 +246,11 @@
 
 <div id="D-aqueous-inorganic" style="display: none">
 ## <a id="aqueous-inorganic" class="anchor"></a> `r setfile("inorganic_aq.csv")`
-*Disclaimer*: The maintenance of separate data files for inorganic and organic species is done only for convenience, and is not meant to imply a preference for any substrate, mechanism, or process.
-In particular, CH<sub>4</sub> (methane) is an organic compound that can also be formed abiotically [@ES13].
-The words *organic* and *inorganic* (for substrates), *biological* and *thermochemical* (for mechanisms), and *biogenic*, *abiogenic*, and *pyrolytic* (for processes) can be used to describe different methane-generating pathways in nature [@Str18].
-The details of this classification system are out of scope for the OBIGT database.
+*Disclaimer*: A choice has been made to put inorganic and organic species into separate data files.
+There is a well-known ambiguity owing to the slightly different usage of these *-ic* words in different fields.
+That is, while CH<sub>4</sub> (methane) is classified in chemistry as an organic compound, in nature it can be derived from living organisms or formed abiotically [@ES13] -- that is, through inorganic processes.
 For practical reasons, CH<sub>4</sub> is placed in the "inorganic" data files in OBIGT simply so that the database can be pruned of organic compounds *except* CH<sub>4</sub> by running `OBIGT(no.organics = TRUE)`.
-The ability to remove hundreds of less-common organic species while keeping CH<sub>4</sub> is useful for some models of inorganic reactions in hydrothermal systems.
+The ability to remove hundreds of more complex organic compounds while keeping CH<sub>4</sub> is useful for some models of inorganic reactions in hydrothermal systems.
 
 ```{r reflist, results="asis", echo=FALSE}
 ```

Modified: pkg/CHNOSZ/vignettes/OBIGT.bib
===================================================================
--- pkg/CHNOSZ/vignettes/OBIGT.bib	2022-04-06 06:25:32 UTC (rev 717)
+++ pkg/CHNOSZ/vignettes/OBIGT.bib	2022-04-06 14:12:40 UTC (rev 718)
@@ -1777,15 +1777,3 @@
   volume    = {51},
   doi       = {10.1002/rog.20011},
 }
-
- at InBook{Str18,
-  author    = {Str{\k{a}}po{\'{c}}, Dariusz},
-  editor    = {White, William M.},
-  pages     = {100--107},
-  publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
-  title     = {Biogenic Methane},
-  year      = {2018},
-  address   = {Cham},
-  booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Geochemistry},
-  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-319-39312-4_166},
-}



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