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[lojban] Re: railgun



Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>>>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.

Well, ... as J.E.C. said, as of now, every railgun is supposed to 
destroy something...

> I like having the material of the slugs specified, but I suppose
> it's hard to magnetically launch non-metal things.

Yep... It may make sense, though, for a plasma railgun (see 
http://www.powerlabs.org/), which has more power and uses special 
projectile materials and forms.

>>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.  :-)
.u'i

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

The coil is made of a wire around the barrel.



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