CompuServe Messages

Hi, Jerry– Whoof! No "butyl" or "butane"? That 1,1,1 trimethyl methane looks like iso-butane to me (not 1,2,3 trimethyl methane?). What do they do with straight butane? 1 methyl 1 methyl 1 methyl methane? If so, I refuse to contemplate proteins, and fear I may have been rash in asking about silicates. I was more just wondering if they recognized "nesosilicate", "tectosilicate" and other such Dana group names. I have heard other names, like "orthosilicate" seems to be the same as "nesosilicate", but some are not apparent from context; I am still wondering what was meant by "subsilicate" in one article. A discussion of the database project (standards and who will do what) might best wait until we see what Lanny has – that may be close enough to make us want to move on to the next project. The earlier discussion on the difficulties of copyrighting a database may bode ill for shareware mineral properties lists. –Doug