Re: [lojban] Re: Chemical elements

[Daniel Brockman <dbrockman@gmail.com>]

This obscure naming exercise seems rather pointless to me.

The priority should be to invent a way to talk about these atoms,
molecules, compounds, etc., using clear, compositional expressions.

What are the basic brivla that we need to express these concepts?

For example, is this a missing brivla?

    x1 is an atom with x2 protons and x3 neutrons

This?

    x1 is a nucleus of atom x2

Or this?

    x1 is an ion of atom x2 with x3 extra electrons

What about this?

    x1 is a molecule consisting of atoms x2

Or this?

    x1 is an alkane with x2 carbon atoms and shape x3

Or what about this one?

    x1 is a molecule consisting of x2 attached to hydrocarbon x3 at the
    carbon atom in position x4

I don't know much chemistry, so I don't know exactly which brivla we'll need.
But I know enough to realize that we ought to start by doing this, not by
making up lots of weird and opaque "names" for every imaginable compound.

I came up with the above examples by just quickly browsing Wikipedia.

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