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Specificities and origins of the Slovak nomenclature of inorganic chemistry

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Nowadays the discussion on the symbiosis of the international and national nomenclature systems in different areas of science provides clear evidences that full implementation of conventional international (mainly English) nomenclature principles in the local ones is sometimes not only unnecessary, but even redundant or impossible. Rapid development of natural sciences necessitates creation of accurate, comprehensive and comprehensible nomenclature systems for objects and phenomena under research. This study outlines the origins and development of the Slovak chemical nomenclature which is based on the Czech model. We analyze the unique Slovak nomenclature items as well as the re-evaluation of linguistic means in the field of inorganic chemistry in the international context. A part of this work is devoted to the syntactical structure of the names of inorganic compounds. At the same time we draw a parallel between chemical nomenclature and the phenomenon of controlled language.

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  1. “Term is an element of the lexicon designating a concept determined by a definition and its place in a conceptual system of a specific scientific, technical, economical and other disciplines” (Masár 1991, p. 29).

  2. In case of HCl it is not called chloro-hydride but hydrogen chloride because hydrogen is a more electropositive part of the molecule.

  3. In reference to the Czech nomenclature Zoch wrote in the introduction of his nomenclature proposition that “Czech nomenclature is in many respects so complete that it will surely become a basis for all Slavic nomenclature which will hold true especially for the chemical one“ (Zoch 1861).

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  1. Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynská Dolina Ilkovičova 6, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

    Michal Galamboš & Lukáš Krivosudský

  2. Slovak National Committee of IUPAC, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

    Michal Galamboš

  3. Slovak Academy of Sciences, Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak National Corpus Department, Panská 26, 813 64, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

    Jana Levická

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Galamboš, M., Krivosudský, L. & Levická, J. Specificities and origins of the Slovak nomenclature of inorganic chemistry. Chem. Pap. 71, 699–705 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11696-017-0133-8

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