Talk:Partition coefficient

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[edit] Table or graph of typical logPs

As an illustration to the article, it could be useful to have a table or graph of the logPs of some typical substances in various solvents, especially octanol/water. The wikipedia articles of many substances cite their partition coefficients or logPs, but it may be difficult to interpret the numbers if you have nothing to compare with. --Eddi (Talk) 13:14, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Big Picture

It would be nice if the first sentence or two gave a lay definition and explained what log P is used for, for those of us who can't make out the rest of the entry. Thanks! 63.249.105.132 14:24, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

I have reworked the introduction and hopefully the second paragraph of the current intro puts things in better perspective.Boghog2 12:11, 30 April 2007 (UTC)