From graywyvern@hotmail.com Mon Dec 11 08:07:07 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: graywyvern@hotmail.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_3_1_3); 11 Dec 2000 16:07:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 44908 invoked from network); 11 Dec 2000 16:07:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 11 Dec 2000 16:07:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.237.125) by mta1 with SMTP; 11 Dec 2000 16:07:06 -0000 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 08:07:05 -0800 Received: from 209.176.48.60 by lw7fd.law7.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 16:07:05 GMT X-Originating-IP: [209.176.48.60] To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] sodna klirysilna Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 16:07:05 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Dec 2000 16:07:05.0589 (UTC) FILETIME=[67E33A50:01C0638C] From: "michael helsem" >From: Pierre Abbat >To: "Lojban@Egroups. Com" >Subject: [lojban] sodna klirysilna >Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 13:14:53 -0500 > >How do we distinguish sodium chloride, sodium hypochlorite, sodium >chlorite, >sodium chlorate, and sodium perchlorate? it's obvious we will have to simply translate chemical formulae into strings of letters & numbers, it doesn't do any good to coin tanru like "salt-type sodium chloride", "bleach ('white- ifying'?) type of sodium chloride" et al because most everything we have a word for is not a chemical compound but a mixture of chemicals. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com