On 26 April 2010 23:46, * Hieran Makhwali
<sarefo@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I need a brivla for "catalyst" because I want to make/define/explain a
> brivla for "enzyme", which is a type of catalyst. There are so many
> scientific items that can be discussed concerning this thing, so its brivla
> should be very productive for the scientific field of Lojbanistan:
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzyme
enzyme. so, for example:
* stoga'i -> catalyst
* lanbystoga'i -> enzyme
I heard that an enzyme is not necessarily a protein.
as you can see, i'm not sure if it should be {stoga'i} or {gafsto},
If they come from {stodi je galfi} and {galfi je stodi}, both forms should be ok. {je} does not seem to always make its way into a lujvo even if semantically vital.
also the x1 of {galfi} is an event, so it's not very precise.
I don't 100% agree with that definition. I don't understand why {galfi}'s x1 is limited to an event while {cikre}'s x1 isn't.
as for {selfusra}, well that would imply a very wide range of
"fermentation", and it would be specific to organic catalysts.
but in
a way it seems rather elegant. having been a biochemist myself,
however, i think it's a bit of a stretch to define all enzymatic
reactions as leading to {fusra}, eg. the enzymes that repair DNA.
If {selfusra} does not specifically mean organic catalysts, I'm fine with that. What I meant in my earlier post was that I wanted to have the word in jbovlaste so that I and others would be better equipped to write about enzymes in Lojban, not so that I could define them as "catalysts" per se.
By the way, this passage got my attention:
Over the past century, the precise classification of inorganic vs organic compounds has become less important to scientists, primarily because the majority of known compounds are synthetic and not of natural origin. Furthermore, most compounds considered the purview of modern inorganic chemistry contain organic ligands.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inorganic_compound)