tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Feb 28 16:09:47 2006
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Re: quadrotriticale {loSpev}
- From: "QeS 'utlh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: quadrotriticale {loSpev}
- Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:09:34 +1000
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ghItlhpu' Shane MiQogh:
>Reminds me of dilithium... If they found out how to make ozone
>naturally, dilithium (in theory, it would be 2 lithium molecules like
>in carbon dioxide (i think)) would be possible...
DuHbe' 'e' vIHar. wej electronmey ghaj lithium. mIchDaj wa'DIchDaq cha'
electron ghaj, 'ej mIchDaj cha'DIchDaq wa' ghaj. ngaDchoHmeH, mIchDaj
cha'DIchDaq ghajnIS chorgh electron, latlh tatvo' Soch electronmey SuqnIS.
'ach wa' neH noblaH latlh lithium tat. electron nob 'e' maS lithium; laj 'e'
par.
I don't think Li2 is possible. Lithium has three electrons: two in the inner
shell and one in the outer shell. To make a stable compound, it needs to
have eight electrons (or none) in its outer shell. However, lithium only has
one free electron to donate. As well, lithium has a tendency to donate
rather than accept electrons.
There have been a couple of fictitious chemical formulas for dilithium
postulated. The simpler is Li2Te, or dilithium telluride. The more complex
is Li2Fe7Al2Si8O27. Both are hypothetically possible, but it's unlikely that
either actually has the fantastic properties that are ascribed to dilithium
in Star Trek.
>But neither substance (quadrotriticale nor dilithium) really appear
>to have any practical purpose in spending bilions of dollars in develpment.
Of course not. They're fictional substances used to further plots. I
seriously doubt, for instance, that dilithium telluride is likely to be able
to regulate a matter-antimatter reaction. (For more information on this,
read "The Physics of Star Trek", by Lawrence Krauss.)
QeS 'utlh
tlhIngan Hol yejHaD pabpo' / Grammarian of the Klingon Language Institute
not nItoj Hemey ngo' juppu' ngo' je
(Old roads and old friends will never deceive you)
- Ubykh Hol vIttlhegh
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