[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: ngIS

[Qov]

At 15:50 '?????' 3/19/2012, you wrote:
>Are there any water-based lubricants? Maybe the 
>sand was full of phosphorus or sodium.

A number, but they aren't typically used for 
disruptor cannons. ghaytan QongDaq retlhDaq lutu'lu'.

And it was beach sand, making that bizarrely 
implausible. Not that bizarrely implausible is in 
any way a restriction for Star Trek plot devices. 
Hov lengvaD ghu' Dayajchu' DaneHchugh 'oy'choH yablIj.

- Qov




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>--- On Mon, 3/19/12, De'vID jonpIn <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>From: De'vID jonpIn <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: ngIS
>To: tlhIngan-Hol at kli.org
>Date: Monday, March 19, 2012, 5:09 PM
>
>
>Qov:
> > jabbI'ID per vIleghDI', jIjatlh, "mu' vetlh 
> vIghojbe'."  jabbI'ID vIlaDchoHDI' vIghovbe'bej.
> > bIqIDbe'bej'a'?
>
>qatlh qIDlu' 'e' DaQub?  mu' qID Daghov'a'?
>
>tlhIngan Hol mu'na' 'oH 'e' wISovbejbe'.  'oghbe'law' MO 'ej 'olbe'law'.
>
>It's a DeCandidovian Klingon word, not (yet) an Okrandian Klingon word.
>
>Qov:
> > Any word on whether this lubricant has its 
> basis in petroleum, graphite, polyfloridated hydrocarbons or animal oils?
>
> From "Honor Bound":
>"Each grenade was a hollow metal oval, into 
>which they had placed the sand from the shores 
>of the Prime Village and a small glass bottle 
>containing {ngIS} — a lubricant used on the 
>disruptor cannons, and which the {Gorkon} had in 
>plentiful supply.  Throwing the grenade with 
>sufficient force would break the bottle upon 
>impact with a solid surface — they had been 
>using B'Oraq's specimen bottles, which were 
>fairly fragile — causing an explosive chemical 
>reaction with one of the minerals in the sand."
>
>I'm no chemist, and I don't know what kind of 
>lubricant would react explosively with a mineral 
>found in beach sand.  A cannon lubricant that 
>explodes under any condition sounds kind of like a bad idea to me.
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