Scientific English...

[rongying]

In one paper, I read:

"However, this hydride has the peculiarity that Mg2Co intermetallic compound has not been observed in a stable form, which difficults Mg2CoH5 formation."

In the next:

"In XRD, there were no additional diffraction peaks which suggested new phases or products resulting from ball milling of MgH2 and Sn."

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Comments

[riverie]

haha, you know what, i actually understood them! LOL

You might understand better like this:

"In XRD, there were no additional diffraction peaks, which will otherwise suggested new phases or products resulting from ball milling of MgH2 and Sn."

A case of bad sentence conjunction indeed! haha

[riverie]

which journals are these published in?

[riverie]

actually hor, on second thoughts, the sentence is not exactly wrong leh, even though I agree it is confusing.

Original Sentence:
"In XRD, there were no additional diffraction peaks which suggested new phases or products resulting from ball milling of MgH2 and Sn."
Interpretation: Presence of additional peaks will suggest new phases.

Notice how the meaning changes if I add a comma:
"In XRD, there were no additional diffraction peaks, which suggested new phases or products resulting from ball milling of MgH2 and Sn."
Interpretation: Absence of additional peaks suggest new phases formed. (which is of course rubbish as you read it)

[rongying]

One in Journal of alloys and compounds 446-447 (2007 106-109

The other Japanese one is in International journal of hydrogen energy, in press