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?
(Another proposal which might be discussed is if protons, neutrons and such should be called something equivalent to "up-up-down" [proton]
instead of
protoni or
nurtoni respectively. Then it would be necessary to define unambigious valsi for quantum states )
I am neither a physician nor an experienced lojbanist but this simply bugged me several days, so what do you think of it?