Re: [lojban] Re: Chemical elements

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Tuesday 15 June 2010 22:38:39 purpleposeidon wrote:
> Let's watch it and myself fail about with some simple examples.
>
>   C
>
> C-C-C-C
>
>   C
> (dimethylbutane)
> remei tabno ke pamei joi xi re tabno ke'e tabno xukmi  (going from
> right to left)

Way too long!! I'd call it "relmetlygilbutli":
metli: methane
gikla: radical
butli: butane
I'm not sure how to distinguish 2,2-dimethylbutane from 2,3-dimethylbutane.

>   C
>
> C-C
>
>   C
> (asdfylate)
> tabno tabno joi dikca bo tabno joi tabno xukmi
> remei tabno joi dikca bo tabno joi tabno xukmi

I've never heard of asdfylate, and Google hasn't either.

> C-C-O
> (ethanol)
> remei tabno kijno xumki

xetlyxalka
xetli: ethane

>   C
>
> C-C=O
> (acetone)
>
> tabno ke tabno joi tabno joi dikca kijno ke'e xumki  (a long carbon chain)
> tabno tabno joi tabno dikca kijno xumki (a chain ending with oxygen)

sarvantonke
tonke: ketone

Anyone wants to run six languages on the chemical gismu, fine with me. I made 
those up arbitrarily years ago.

Pierre
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Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.

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