沉寂的化学用字

人类通过化学加深了对物质世界的认识且创造了数量庞大的新物质。在把化学系统引进中国之时,化学工作者创用了一批化学新字。随着时代的变迁,一些化学新字也在发生改变。文章对新中国成立初期仍有使用但后来逐渐淡出的一些化学用字进行了分析,详细介绍了硅、苷、蛋白质等几个专业用词的形成过程,并对其他一些化学用字如酰、醣、肽、镥、锿、镄等的形成进行了简单介绍。

The Diminishing Chemical Terms in China

It is chemistry that has enhanced our understanding of physical world and helped us create a huge number of new materials. In introducing chemistry systematically from western to China, a large quantity of new chemical terms were created. With the progress of time, some of these chemical terms have been changed. In this paper, we have investigated some chemical terms that appeared in 1950s and fade out in the later years. The changes of some chemical terms such as silicon, glycosides and protein is introduced in detail. The formation of other chemical terms such as acyl, carbohydrate, peptide, Lutetium, Einsteinium, Fermium, etc. is introduced briefly.