[Freebase-discuss] Schema proposal: more properties for chemical compounds

[Tom Morris]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Jeff Prucher <jprucher at google.com> wrote:
> I've created a base type to model some new properties for chemical
> compounds that I'd like to propose for promotion to the commons
> /chemistry/chemical_compound type. You can view them here:
> http://www.freebase.com/schema/type/base/chemplus/chemical_compound_extension
>
> The properties are density, vapor pressure, solubility, and MSDS.
> Density and vapor pressure should be pretty self-explantory.
> Solubility is a simple "is this chemical soluble in this other
> chemical?" property (as opposed to being a measure of how soluble the
> solute is), and MSDS expects a URI for online material safety data
> sheets.

Isn't MSDS a U.S. specific thing?  Is this intended to include
Chemiekaarten, COSHH, etc for other countries?  If so, do we need a
way to tag the URLs with their country, language, or some other
characteristic?

Tom