Re: Conlang as a divider from others

Jeffrey Henning wrote:
>
> Grandsire, C.A. <grandsir@...> comunu:
>
> >         It makes me also think of the special naming languages invented by
> > chemists to name all molecules in an unambiguous way that allows to
> > reconstruct the structure of the moecule simply by parsing the name. I
> > had to learn this language during my Organic Chemistry classes, and
> > needless to say, it's something very complex and nearly hermetic :) (and
> > full of rules and subrules, etc... to take every case into account, and
> > even rules for abbreviation because some names can be as long as a full
> > paragraph :) ).
>
> I had never heard there was a nomenclature corresponding to chemical
> formulae.  Can anyone point me to a web site that has more information about
> this?
>
        I've just found this one:

http://www.acdlabs.com/iupac/nomenclature/

        I didn't look closely but it should be good as it is the webification
of the official guide for nomenclature of the IUPAC that all chemists
use for naming organic coumpounds.

        There is also another nomenclature for naming mineral compounds, but it
is less systematic and I didn't find good URLs about it. Anyway, any
search using the key-words "chemistry" and "nomenclature" should give
you all the answers you need.

> Best regards,
>
> Jeffrey Henning
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