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suggestion for multiple classifiers instead of "cap"

Rick,
Instead of just one classifier, "cap-", for 'other artificial substance', I suggest several, determined by the basic form the substance typically has, especially under standard conditions.  
The classifications I have in mind are for metals, non-metal solids, liquids, gases, and other.

Here are the current "cap-" entries grouped into these classifications:

Metals ('Metal' itself is "cejavi", i.e., a natural substance.  Elemental metals are in "civ-", so the new classification would be non-elemental metals.)
capi [P-s] - steel.
kucecapi [P-s] - alloy.

Non-metal solids.
baycapi [P-s] - felt.
bojaycapi [P-s] - plaster.
cinficapi [P-s] - chalk.
cuncapi [P-s] - leather.
dejicapi [P-s] - plywood.
fayfucapi [P-s] - fodder, hay.
fedacapi [P-s] - tobacco.
foycapi [P-s] - gunpowder.
jaybocapi [P-s] - paste, cream.
jaycapi [P-s] - powder.
jicapi [P-s] - paper [the material].
jocapi [P-s] - wax.
joycapi [P-s] - salve, ointment.
kawcapi [P-s] - rubber.
kencapi [P-s] - straw [for bedding and thatching].
kicapi [P-s] - glass [the substance].
kidecapi [P-s] - film, photographic or movie film.
kwicapi [P-s] - cement.
tezincapi [P-s] - lipstick.
ticapi [P-s] - grease, lubricating grease.
twacapi [P-s] - cloth, fabric, textile.
xacapi [P-s] - gravel.
zuncapi [P-s] - plastic.

Liquids.
boticapi [P-s] - oil, lubricating oil.
boycapi [P-s] - oil, fuel oil.
ficapi [P-s] - ink.
joycincapi [P-s] - antiseptic.
tibocapi [P-s] - gas/gasoline, petrol.
xucapi [P-s] - glue, adhesive.
zincapi [P-s] - paint.

Gases.
(No entries, but tear gas is an example.)

Other. (This would typically include substances which can exist in various forms.  Some, like 'makeup' and 'mascara', may belong in a more specific classification.)
byecapi [P-s] - stuff, material, synthetic or artificial substance or material.
cincapi [P-s] - soap.
fawcapi [P-s] - waste, leavings, refuse.
junzincapi [P-s] - makeup, cosmetics.
kizincapi [P-s] - mascara, eye shadow.
xocapi [P-s] - fuel.
zocapi [P-s] - explosive.

stevo