protomolecule
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.50 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Molecular hydrogen is by the way a very difficult species to form in the gas phase by radiative association of H atoms, mainly because the protomolecule formed in this way is vibrationally highly excited and cannot get rid of the energy excess to enter inside the potential well and reach stability in a time short enough to avoid breaking."
- "This is a consequence of the fact that the protomolecule, just formed in a high vibrational level, has to release quickly (roughly in a time comparable with its vibrational period) an energy excess of about four and a half electronvolt."
- "As pointed out many years ago (see, for example, Duley and Williams, 1984), molecular hydrogen cannot form efficiently in the gas phase in the ISM, when H atoms are neutral and in the ground state, since three-body reactions are necessary to take out the excess energy quickly enough before the protomolecule falls apart."
- "It is most probable that all matter is simply the allotropic expression of one element and that the protomolecule is the union of the positively and negatively electrified etheric corpuscle."
- "Another example is the technique developed at NRC for synthesizing the insulin protomolecule."
- "The local structure seen in Figure 3 may in fact be the entire structure of a fundamental melanin protomolecule."
Etymology
From proto- + molecule.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: proto
Inflected Forms
Frequently Paired Words
protomolecular