Re: Periodic Table in conlang
| From: | Joe Hill <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 25, 2001, 8:41 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Padraic Brown" <agricola@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 8:24 PM
Subject: Re: Periodic Table in conlang
> Am 24.12.01, Joe Hill yscrifef:
>
> > My people have a table which looks like this
>
> > 1 2 3 4 5
> > 1 F H N O He
> > 2 U Fe Cu Ag Au
> > 3 C B Si S P
> >
>
> A curious collection (and arrangement). What's the story behind
> it? Why only 15? Etc.?
>
> Padraic.
These are the first elements to be discovered by my people, who have a thing
for the number 15. They consider these to be the basic elements of the
earth, there are, as I said, others, but they not seen as canon elements as
it were, and are assumed to be merely compounds which technology has not yet
broken. Interestingly, copper is one of the more valuable metals, it is
rare, hard and useful. And my people also have a thing with the colour red.
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