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From: Eric Martz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, January 15, 2004 1:23 pm
Subject: Re: [Jmol-developers] Re: inorganic color schemes

> At 1/12/04, timothy driscoll wrote:
> >I would prefer to see Jmol implement a superset of the 
> Chime/RasMol cpk
> >scheme.  I'd rather not keep the redundant colors.
> 
> 
> This is OK with me. Since the colors for the important elements 
> (C, H, O, 
> N, P, S) will be very close to those in RasMol/Chime, 

> OK for the 
> less 
> common elements to diverge from the historic scheme.

Watch the frame of reference, please! The most abundant elements in the earth's crust 
are Si, Al, O, and Fe, with terrestrial C is mostly present as carbonate and S and 
sulfates and sulfides. Biological C, H, O, N, P, and S are, for all their wonder, a 
relative rarity, as is life itself!

--Phillip Barak



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