History: Chemistry

Source of version: 6 (current)

If you're interested in translating descriptions of the elements, there is a public domain mini-dictionary of the elements at [http://ucsub.colorado.edu/~kominek/elements/] It is public domain, so there isn't any need for this, but anyone translating it into Lojban has my explicit permission to do so. (If nothing else, it is a comprehensive listing of the IUPAC element names) --((Jay Kominek|jay)) Here's the periodic table in Lojban: [http://phma.optus.nu/Language/selratni.html] --phma ---- Chemical morphology is much like Lojban morphology. I therefore think that for Lojban to become a good language to write chemistry in, we need a set of gismu (preferably with rafsi) for concepts such as ''x1 is an aldehyde derived from x2'', ''x1 is an alkene with x2 carbon atoms and double bonds at locations x3'', and ''x1 is an ether of radicals x2 and x3''. We already have silna, slami, jilka, and xalka. *gikla [[gil] x1 is a radical of x2. e.g. jaurgikla = hydroxyl, jaurgilsodna = sodium hydroxide. *xudvu [[xud xu'u] x1 is an aldehyde derived from x2 *gresu [[ges] x1 is an alkene derived from x2, with double bond at x3 *grisu [[gis] x1 is an alkyne derived from x2, with triple bond at x3 *benzo [[bez] x1 is an aromatic compound characterized by/derived from x2 *trona x1 is an amine of x2 *truna x1 is an imine of x2 and x3 *metli x1 is methane; x1 is a methyl compound of type x2 *xetli x1 is ethane; x1 is an ethyl compound of type x2 *zmase 'enzyme, -ase' x1 catalyzes reaction x2 (nu) *tonke x1 is a ketone of x2 and x3 ''gresu'' and ''grisu'' are derived from ''grasu''; ''ctile'' would be semantically better, but the rafsi aren't available, although ''ctile'' ((CouldaBeenRafsi|could have)) had the rafsi ''cle''. ''xudvu'' is made from consonants of ''xalka'', ''cidro'', and ''vimcu'' with semi-arbitrary vowels. ''trona'' and ''truna'' are derived from ''trano''. So an amino acid is ''tronyslami'' (also ''lanbysle'' but ''tronyslami'' also applies to nylon monomers) and ''reltabgresu reltrona vonsarvanslami'' is EDTA. For acids, though, I feel that the perXic/hypoXous system is too arbitrary. I suggest instead lujvo like cancmucibykijyslami. --phma ((Common chemicals))