Re: [lojban] Re: Chemical elements

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

On Tuesday 22 June 2010 11:25:24 Warrigal wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Daniel Brockman <dbrockman@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > I'm not following the sarcasm.  What are you trying to say?
>
> That there already is a formulaic way to talk about compounds (the
> IUPAC nomenclature), and so creating an entirely new one for Lojban
> would be pointless.

We're not (or at least some of us aren't) creating an entirely new one. We're 
figuring out how to express IUPAC nomenclature in Lojban, without simply 
quoting the whole thing as foreign.

Oh, and the third way that numbers are used is to indicate valence or 
oxidation states, as in "iron (III) oxide". "tirse xi ci kijytau"?

Pierre
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