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Re: blog: semantic dissonance in uniprot

From: Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:49:44 -0400
Message-ID: <5639badd0903310549s4280c54akb650d6c8140bda65@mail.gmail.com>
To: Wacek Kusnierczyk <Waclaw.Marcin.Kusnierczyk@idi.ntnu.no>
Cc: Matthias Samwald <samwald@gmx.at>, Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>, public-semweb-lifesci <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org> 
     Hello Wacek, All,

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Wacek Kusnierczyk
<Waclaw.Marcin.Kusnierczyk@idi.ntnu.no> wrote:
> i'd agree that having non-integer *molecule numbers* sounds nonsense,
> but having non-integer *relative molecule numbers* certainly doesn't.
> in any case, the equation
>
>    N2O2 -> 2 NO2 + 1/2 O2
>
> is equivalent to
>
>    2 N2O2 -> 4 NO2 + O2
>
> and you can always (i guess) avoid non-integer coefficients by
> multiplying both sides by a constant.

  What about this statement:

  "Two grams of hydrogen react with 16 grams of oxygen to 18 grams of water"

     Take care
     Oliver

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Oliver Ruebenacker, Computational Cell Biologist
BioPAX Integration at Virtual Cell (http://vcell.org/biopax)
Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling
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