Re: Sensory Infixes in rtemmu (was Mauve and a related conlang question)

Christophe Grandsire sikyal:

> > If you get enough of it, it turns blue, viz. the sky.
>
> Except that it's the 75% of natrium that give the sky its blue colour,
> not the 20% of oxygen. I don't remember which colour would the sky be if
> oxygen was majoritary, but a colour between yellow and green comes to
> mind. I studied that a few years ago, I should have it in my notes. Now
> where are my
> notes... ;))
Ooops, my bad.  Except for the fact that "natrium" is called "nitrogen" in
English, you're correct that most of the atmosphere is nitrogen, not
oxygen.  Still, I think I remember reading that for some reason, oxygen is
still dominant in determining color.  Web searches turned up nothing very
informative on this--does anyone know for sure?


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