yoctomole
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An SI unit of amount of substance equal to 10⁻²⁴ moles. Symbol: ymol. The yoctomole is approximately 0.6 of an individual particle.
Example Sentences
- "A low cost, 0.75-mW helium neon laser, operating in the green region at 534.5 nm, is used to excite fluorescence from tetramethylrhodamine isothiocyanate-labelled DNA fragments that have been separated by capillary gel electrophoresis.The detection limit (3σ) for the dye is 500 ymol [1 yoctomole (1 ymol) = 10⁻²⁴ mol] or 300 analyte molecules in capillary zone electrophoresis"
Etymology
From yocto- + mole.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: yocto
Inflected Forms
yoctomoles (plural)
Synonyms
ymol