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May 11 15:49
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English term

Vacancy

English Other Mathematics & Statistics Formula
The context:
A positive electrode active material, wherein the positive electrode active material is granular and comprises a compound represented by formula 1,
(NaxAy)a□bM1[M2(CN)6]δ Formula 1
wherein A is selected from at least one of alkali metal elements and has an ionic radius greater than that of sodium, M1 and M2 are each independently selected from at least one of transition metal elements, 0< y≤ 0.2, 0 < x+y ≤ 2, 0 < δ < 1, a+b=2, 0.85≤a≤0.98, represents a vacancy, and b represents the number of vacancies.

What is "vacancy" here?

Thank you
Responses
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Change log

May 13, 2024 20:19: Yana Dovgopol changed "Term Context" from "The context: A positive electrode active material, wherein the positive electrode active material is granular and comprises a compound represented by formula 1, (NaxAy)a□bM1[M2(CN)6]δ Formula 1 wherein A is selected from at least one of alkali metal elements and has an ionic radius greater than that of sodium, M1 and M2 are each independently selected from at least one of transition metal elements, 0<y≤0.2, 0<x+y≤2, 0<δ<1, a+b=2, 0.85≤a≤0.98, □ represents a vacancy, and b represents the number of vacancies. What is \"vacancy\" here? Thank you" to "The context: A positive electrode active material, wherein the positive electrode active material is granular and comprises a compound represented by formula 1, (NaxAy)a□bM1[M2(CN)6]δ Formula 1 wherein A is selected from at least one of alkali metal elements and has an ionic radius greater than that of sodium, M1 and M2 are each independently selected from at least one of transition metal elements, 0<y≤0.2, 0<x+y≤2, 0<δ<1, a+b=2, 0.85≤a≤0.98, represents a vacancy, and b represents the number of vacancies. What is \"vacancy\" here? Thank you"

May 13, 2024 20:19: Yana Dovgopol changed "Term Context" from "The context: A positive electrode active material, wherein the positive electrode active material is granular and comprises a compound represented by formula 1, (NaxAy)a□bM1[M2(CN)6]δ Formula 1 wherein A is selected from at least one of alkali metal elements and has an ionic radius greater than that of sodium, M1 and M2 are each independently selected from at least one of transition metal elements, 0<y≤0.2, 0<x+y≤2, 0<δ<1, a+b=2, 0.85≤a≤0.98, represents a vacancy, and b represents the number of vacancies. What is \"vacancy\" here? Thank you" to "The context: A positive electrode active material, wherein the positive electrode active material is granular and comprises a compound represented by formula 1, (NaxAy)a□bM1[M2(CN)6]δ Formula 1 wherein A is selected from at least one of alkali metal elements and has an ionic radius greater than that of sodium, M1 and M2 are each independently selected from at least one of transition metal elements, 0< y≤ 0.2, 0 < x+y ≤ 2, 0 < δ < 1, a+b=2, 0.85≤a≤0.98, represents a vacancy, and b represents the number of vacancies. What is \"vacancy\" here? Thank you"

Discussion

BdiL May 14:
NO VACANCY Well over fifty years ago, as a teenager, I was touring the US with my family. We had been joined by Italian friends, whose English-language competency was NIL. Well, looking for a motel the wife exclaims "look! another motel of the NO VACANCY chain!!" My family tried to remain serious (the ROFL was left to when, having found a vacancy, we were in our room). A legend was born! However, do you know how vacancy translates into Italian in the chemistry field? VACANZA. To the average Italian this would cause ROFL, because we use vacanza (pl. vacanze) to say holiday / vacation (vacancies). Nobody thinks those words (both in IT and in EN) actually point at the ABSENCE of something, depending on the context. So much for "idle" talking. But I wish I shed a sunray of lightness on our lives. Yours sincerely. Maurice
BdiL May 14:
0.85≤a≤0.98, □ represents a vacancy, This is the part Yana Dovgopol changed, because the little box was missing. I had to compare the before and after thoroughly. I surmise she was, maybe, implying that anyone (even the Asker) coul read the answer right there. Then, by using whichever search method, a check on what VACANCY means in the physical chemistry field could be performed. I am glad you have been teaching me a lot about AI (I am a rookie at that), but that goes beyond the point. Perhaps Mr. Beijer might have answered omitting how he had gotten to the answer. I also owe Mr. Vrooman a clarification, because the rephrasing he did of my "letting the final answer to AI [does not satisfy me]," doesn't represent my thinking. It was meant to stress the point that a human (Mr. Beijer) did give the final answer. I repeat, no need to tell us how he got there. KudoZ exists to get answers, right? Anthony Indra got his and we might just rest the whole case, but I owe you a linguistic anecdote... (BTW, I came to read this KudoZ wondering "who needs to be told what VACANCY means?!")
Michael Beijer May 13:
sorry if some of the above doesn't make sense one of my posts was hidden because it violated this rule: "Discussion entries should limit themselves to linguistic points on the term posted"

great way to build community guys
Michael Beijer May 12:
PS: another very cool use of AI is the various new dictation engines being built on top of LLMs. e.g., have a look at my recent post on LinkedIn, "𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻 (𝗗𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁)", where I explain how I am currently able to switch between English dictation and voice commands and Dutch dictation (on Mac, Linux or Windows!) using Talon (https://talonvoice.com/ ), which has replaced Dragon on my computer and is built on Whisper, an AI model created by OpenAI: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7195147110...

(https://openai.com/index/whisper/ )
Michael Beijer May 12:
... Analogously, I also use various MT engines, also in various ways: sometimes in memoQ, often via GT4T, where I select some text on my computer and press Ctrl+G and am presented with a list of different translations of my selection by 8 (or more!) different MT engines. E.g., I currently have GT4T set to use:

ChatGPT 3.5
ChatGPT-4
Gemini
Amazon Translate
Google Translate
DeepL
Microsoft Translator
ModernMT

Having instant access to 8 different translations of my current segment in memoQ can be super useful.

And I also still do a hell of a lot of googling, and am also testing Perplexity, which is kind of a search engine & AI hybrid system.

And I also often ask colleagues in forums, or the client/end client.

And I also often look stuff up in my extremely large collection of multilingual dictionaries and terminology resources (on my bookshelf, computer + online), including in my own terminology wiki Beijerterm.com.

You get the picture. AI is just another tool and railing against it isn't gonna make it go away. The cat is out of the bag. If you ask me, it's better to familiarise yrself with all the latest tech and go with the flow. I may be 48, but I am still young at heart.
Björn Vrooman May 12:
Interestingly enough, the second Ghit on that page reads:
"This concept focuses on the formation of transition metal (TM) vacancy, vacancy contained configurations for triggering oxygen redox, advanced characterization techniques for detecting TM vacancy and viable strategies to improve the reversibility of vacancy-induced oxygen redox for layered cathode materials of sodium-ion batteries."
https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10....

So, there you got proof of your answer being correct and an explanation of what this has to do with batteries (and transition metals) and I didn't need to spend much time on it.

I'm honestly surprised that BdiL hasn't brought this up, but I remember her saying something like: if you know how to do research, there's no need for these kinds of programs.

To be clear, I think you're fully capable of getting there on your own, which is why I don't understand this promotion of tools any gamer could only yawn about (i.e., this repackaging of an old idea that has been a staple of the video game industry since its inception).

Have a great evening, all of you
Björn Vrooman May 12:
Michael In the time it took you to write that post, I had already copied and pasted two separate bits of the asker's text into Google and found the patent in question.

And in the time it took you to put this into ChatGPT, Google was already showing me multiple examples of "□ represents a vacancy" on the first page of results, as well as the following Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maghemite

None of this is some kind of witchcraft: none of it requires "AI" (cannot bring myself to omit the quotation marks, sorry) and I'm 100% sure you could have gotten there in the same amount of time without using any of these "tools."

What's more, using Ctrl+F to scan the source text revealed--in another two minutes at most--that the source includes the following explanation of the term:
"The area defined between the layer, having the total content of Na and A less than the total content of the transition metal elements M1 and M2, closest to the inside of the particle and the surface of the particle is called a vacancy layer."

Additionally, typing in just three words, such as chemical, vacancy, and metal, shows me the exact same Wiki page you quoted--in under a minute.

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Daryo May 12:
ChatGP is just one new tool. Can be useful, but should NEVER be blindly trusted.
Michael Beijer May 11:
@writeaway Here's why I used ChatGPT.

I saw the Asker's question, but since it was originally truncated, it didn't make much sense to me (without the end: "[…] □ represents a vacancy, and b represents the number of vacancies."). I figured, why not feed it to ChatGPT to see what it would make of it. AIs are sometimes very good at making sense of messy stuff like this or of pointing you in the right direction. Anyway, it indeed filled in the missing blank and pointed me in the right direction, so I then answered the question, by then also having been provided with the missing part of the question by Asker.

I'm no whizz when it comes to chemistry or materials science, but I think my answer is correct. That is, "vacancy" refers to a missing part of the structure of a compound and is referred to with that little box symbol.
Michael Beijer May 11:
as I said above... "vacancy" here refers to a vacancy in the structure of the compound. In crystallography and materials science, e.g., a vacancy refers to a site in a crystal lattice that should be occupied by an atom or ion but is instead empty.
Ray Nugraha (asker) May 11:
The question (Vacancy) Sorry the question is truncated.
The Context:

A positive electrode active material, wherein the positive electrode active material is granular and comprises a compound represented by formula 1,
(NaxAy)a□bM1[M2(CN)6]δ Formula 1
wherein A is selected from at least one of alkali metal elements and has an ionic radius greater than that of sodium, M1 and M2 are each independently selected from at least one of transition metal elements, 0<y≤0.2, 0<x+y≤2, 0<δ<1, a+b=2, 0.85≤a≤0.98, □ represents a vacancy, and b represents the number of vacancies.

> What is "vacancy" here?
Michael Beijer May 11:
@Anthony: Exactly what is your question?
Michael Beijer May 11:
□ https://opengeology.org/Mineralogy/13-crystal-structures/?pr...

"The □ symbol shows a vacancy. "
Michael Beijer May 11:
I tend to agree See: https://www.britannica.com/science/vacancy + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacancy_defect
Michael Beijer May 11:
this is what ChatGPT thinks: In the context provided, which appears to be from a chemical or material science description, "Vacancy" is represented by the symbol "□". This symbol is used to denote a vacancy in the structure of the compound. In crystallography and materials science, a vacancy refers to a site in a crystal lattice that should be occupied by an atom or ion but is instead empty.

In the given formula for the positive electrode active material:
(NaxAy)a□bM1[M2(CN)6]δ

The "□b" likely indicates that there are 'b' number of vacancies in the lattice structure of the compound. These vacancies can play a significant role in the material's properties, such as ionic conductivity, which is particularly relevant in the context of electrode materials in batteries. Vacancies can allow for easier movement of ions, such as Na+ ions, within the material, thereby enhancing the material's performance as an electrode.

Responses

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as I said above...

"vacancy" here refers to a vacancy in the structure of the compound. In crystallography and materials science, e.g., a vacancy refers to a site in a crystal lattice that should be occupied by an atom or ion but is instead empty.
Reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacancy_defect

https://www.britannica.com/science/vacancy

Peer comment(s):
neutral writeaway : ChatGPT???
5 hrs
ha ha, yeah, I can see how that might look bad. see my latest entry in the dbox / I often use AI (specifically, https://poe.com ) as a springboard for further research
neutral Cilian O'Tuama : We fought to have cgpt removed. Askers can resort to such intelligence themselves, preferably before coming here.
9 hrs
I am not against Proz implementing AI. However, their approach could have been more considered.
agree BdiL : I am not keen either on letting AI be the final answerer, however, Michael gave the proper explanation. M.
17 hrs
Thanks!
agree Daryo : That's the right answer. Nothing wrong with using AI as one of many tools // What is terminally wrong is the mental laziness of blindly relying on AI.
19 hrs
totally agree, I would never fully trust AI, or MT for that matter, when translating. they are just tools
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