Something that has bugged me the last few days is the current nomenclature of the chemical elements.
I am relatively new to lojban but what I have learned quite early is that lojban tries to name every object/idea/concept systematically.
So for an example the lojban names for days in a week are named after there position in the week.
Monday (or "is a monday") for example is
pavdei (a construct of the rafsi of pa and djedi), literally "one-day".
On the other hand the current nomenclature of chemical elements
(https://jbo.wikipedia.org/wiki/dikni_selratni_cartu) is based on their trivia names in latin/english or whatsoever.
Why is this? It's like calling monday
mondei in lojba.
I propose the chemical elements are called by the number of protons in their nuclei, which defines the chemical element
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_element).An possible implementation would be to combine the rafsi of the numbers with the rafsi of
ratni.
An example:
pavrat
x1 is an atom of atomic number 1 of isotope number/atomic weight x2; x1 is hydrogen of isotope number/atomic weight x2
and/or
x1 is a quantity of/contains/is made of hydrogen
The latter definition could of course also be made with
gunma or something similar.
Any thoughts on that?