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

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 12, 2002, 20:16
Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> Except that it's the 75% of natrium that give the sky its blue colour, not the > 20% of oxygen.
Natrium = Na = sodium. You mean N = nitrogen = azote. Actually neither ingredient is directly responsible for the color, which is the result of long-wave scattering of sunlight off the particulates in the atmosphere. -- John Cowan <jcowan@...> http://www.reutershealth.com I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_