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ALKYLATING AGENTS

Specialty Definition: ALKYLATING AGENTS

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Health

Highly reactive chemicals that introduce alkyl radicals into biologically active molecules and thereby prevent their proper functioning. Many are used as antineoplastic agents, but most are very toxic, with carcinogenic, mutagenic, teratogenic, and immunosuppressant actions. They have also been used as components in poison gases. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: ALKYLATING AGENTS

Specialty definitions using "ALKYLATING AGENTS": 6-hydroxymethylacylfulveneAmino Acid Chloromethyl Ketonesbizelesin, busulfancarmustine, carzelesin, Chromosome BreakagedacarbazineglufosfamideNitrogen Mustard CompoundspenclomedinesarCNUtemozolomide, treosulfan. (references)

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Anagrams: ALKYLATING AGENTS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-e-g-g-i-k-l-l-n-n-s-t-t-y"

-4 letters: tangentially.

-5 letters: antenatally.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ALKYLATING AGENTS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 4C 4B 59 4C 41 54 49 4E 47      41 47 45 4E 54 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01001100 01001011 01011001 01001100 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01000001 01000111 01000101 01001110 01010100 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#76 &#75 &#89 &#76 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#32 &#65 &#71 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 004C 004B 0059 004C 0041 0054 0049 004E 0047      0041 0047 0045 004E 0054 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

354645594635544348412354139485453

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