plastosemiquinone
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
2
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any semiquinone derived from a plastoquinone
Example Sentences
- "Also, DFT calculations on the plastosemiquinone anion radical in PSII found the histidine N δ to be the stronger of the two H-bond donors. 47 Therefore, the previous assignments of the hydrogen bond proton couplings for SQ A in PSII are not unambiguous. 46 From a comparative analysis of available nqi data for several semiquinone species and for copper complexes, 17 we find that the protonated imidazole nitrogens of these systems share similar valence orbital occupancies."
Etymology
Etymology tree English plasto- Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sēmi Latin sēmi-bor. English semi- English quinine Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English quinic German Ketonbor. English ketone English -one English quinone English semiquinone English plastosemiquinone From plasto- + semiquinone.