Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

phosphoramidite

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: phos-pho-ramidite
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any amidite formally derived from a phosphite; they are used in the synthesis of nucleic acids etc

Example Sentences

"The resultant phosphoramidite is stable and can be stored in the absence of moisture as a white powder."
"All the 60-mer length oligonucleotide probes, base-by-base, are printed from digital sequence files and the standard phosphoramidite chemistry used in the reactions allows for high coupling efficiencies . . ."

Etymology

From phosphor + amidite.

Inflected Forms

phosphoramidites (plural)

Questions

What does phosphoramidite mean?: Any amidite formally derived from a phosphite; they are used in the synthesis of nucleic acids etc
Where does phosphoramidite come from?: From phosphor + amidite.

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