Re: Sensory Infixes in rtemmu (was Mauve and a related conlang
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 12, 2002, 20:16 |
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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.
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