[lojban] How to Say "is made of"?

["H. Felton" <lojban707@fagricipni.com>]

I know that the CLL uses "living things are made of cells" as 
an *example* of the use of "zi'o" -- 
"loi jimve cu se zabsu zi'o loi selci" --; nevertheless, 
there must be a better way of expressing the "made of" 
relationship.  My thought-of sentence was "ordinary matter is 
made of atoms" (On an incidental note, I decided that I needed 
to use "slabu" for this use of "ordinary".); I ended up with 
"lo slabu marji ku gunma lo ratni".

As far as the original "loi jimve cu se zabsu zi'o loi selci", 
I can see no reason post-xorlo that "lo" wouldn't work just as 
well as "loi"; ie, "lo jimve cu se zabsu zi'o lo selci".  Then 
with my choice for "is made of": "lo jimve cu gunma lo selci".  

I'm not so sure about the choice of "lo" vs "loi" as I am that 
there _should be_ a better expression for "is made of" than 
having to use "zabsu" with the maker place blocked up with 
"zo'i"; the concept of "is made of" is just too common.


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