From phma@oltronics.net Mon Dec 24 11:35:47 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 24 Dec 2001 19:35:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 26138 invoked from network); 24 Dec 2001 19:35:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m12.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 24 Dec 2001 19:35:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Dec 2001 19:35:31 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 49FD03C4C1; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 14:35:27 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Names of chemical elements? Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 14:35:26 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01122414352602.01575@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=7781868 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 12694 On Monday 24 December 2001 13:49, tomdinan wrote: > Anyone know the names of the chemical elements in Lojban? http://nuzban.wiw.org/wiki/index.php?Chemistry http://virtual.oltronics.net/~phma/Language/selratni.html The latter URL is due to change shortly, to what, I haven't decided. It should be up for a few more months. A more complicated question is how to name chemical *compounds*. I started to try to answer that, couldn't find a good set of rafsi for -ane/-ene/-yne, and gave up for a while. But I did come up with names for some fatty acids; see the article on nuzban. phma