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The result was redirect to Citrate#Buffering--Ymblanter (talk) 07:40, 6 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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This seems to be more of a dictdef than an article; perhaps my lack of expertise in this area means I've misunderstood. This has been tagged for notability for 7 years; hopefully we can now get it resolved. Boleyn (talk) 14:39, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:29, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak delete. Judging from the hits on Google books, this seems to be extremely widely used in biological experiments, but I was unable to find in-depth sourcing on its uses and properties. Searching for "saline-sodium citrate" + "buffers" (note plural) helped avoid the many hits in which it is mentioned only trivial as one ingredient in a recipe, but even so the remaining hits were not of high quality. So it looks like the sort of thing that should be notable, but I was unable to find convincing evidence that it actually is notable. And in any case we wouldn't lose much by deleting the article as nominated; if better sources turn up, it can always be re-created. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:53, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Citrate#Buffering, where it is mentioned. This page on sodium citrate goes in depth, but not much depth on the buffer itself. Nonetheless, the buffer is ubiquitous in molecular protocols and is quite verifiable in basic facts from many short secondary reliable sources, more than enough to be able to provide a short summary somewhere on WP. Right now, Citrate#Buffering seems like the best redirect target, where it is already mentioned. SSC buffer is a plausible, common term, so a redirect is warranted. --Mark viking (talk) 00:31, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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