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On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 03:00:26PM +0400, Aleksej R. Serdyukov wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > Anyways, I used "xumjimcelxa'i" for "gun" as in "chemical
> > projectile weapon" in my LNC story.
> 
> Hm, what is "jim" for here?

jinme; metal.

> > Using a similar construct for railgun gives makyjimcelxa'i, with
> > a place structure something like:
> 
> I think, {makce'a} is enough...
>
> For railgun/coilgun used as weapon, it would be {makcelxa'i}.

Ah, good point; forgot you might want a non-weapon version.
I like having the material of the slugs specified, but I suppose
it's hard to magnetically launch non-metal things.

> > $x_1 = c_1$ is a railgun/magnetically launched metal slug
> > throwing weapon for use against x2 by x3; weapon fires metallic
> > object(s) j1 using magnetic ojbect(s) m1
> > 
> > j2 and m2 are dropped due to being mostly useless.
> 
> There is also coilgun that must be differed from railgun, because
> its requirements are completely different. People often make
> coilguns at home, but making a railgun at home is not very wise,
> because it is dangerous more than useful. You just can't take it
> outside, I guess. :)
> 
> Is there a word for coil or gauss?

Not for the Gauss; you'd have to come up with a Lujvo for kg * s^-2
* A^-1.  :-)

For "coil" there is clupe, djine and sarlu, depending on what you
mean, exactly.

-Robin

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