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CYCLODEXTRINS

Specialty Definition: CYCLODEXTRINS

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Health

A homologous group of cyclic glucans consisting of alpha-1,4 bound glucose units obtained by the action of cyclodextrin glucanotransferase on starch or similar substrates. The enzyme is produced by certain species of Bacillus. Cyclodextrins form inclusion complexes with a wide variety of substances. (references)

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

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Commercial Usage: CYCLODEXTRINS

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Books

  • Comprehensive Supramolecular Chemistry : Cyclodextrins (reference)

  • Cyclodextrins in Pharmacy (Topics in Inclusion Science, Vol 5) (reference)

  • Cyclodextrins Try) (reference)

  • Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Cyclodextrins, Munich, West Germany, April 20-22, 1988 (Adventures in Inclusion Science) (reference)

  • Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Cyclodextrins, Budapest, Hungary, March 31-April 2, 1996 (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: CYCLODEXTRINS

"CYCLODEXTRINS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CYCLODEXTRINS" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CYCLODEXTRINS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

as chiral cyclodextrins hplc in selector

3

cyclodextrins

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: CYCLODEXTRINS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-i-l-n-o-r-s-t-x-y"

-1 letter: cyclodextrin.

-3 letters: disconcert.

-4 letters: centroids, codirects, concisely, cornicles, cryolites, cylinders, doctrines, occidents, sclerotic, sclerotin, stridency, syncretic, tricycles.

-5 letters: centroid, circlets, cloister, codirect, cointers, coistrel, conceits, concerti, concerts, conciser, condyles, consider, cordites, cornetcy, corniced, cornices, cornicle, corniest, cortices, costlier, cresylic, croceins, cryolite, cryonics, cycloids, cyclones, cylinder, cytosine, dextrins, dicotyls, directly, doctrine, drystone, dyslexic, dystonic, elytroid.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CYCLODEXTRINS


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

43 59 43 4C 4F 44 45 58 54 52 49 4E 53

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000011 01011001 01000011 01001100 01001111 01000100 01000101 01011000 01010100 01010010 01001001 01001110 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0059 0043 004C 004F 0044 0045 0058 0054 0052 0049 004E 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

37593746493839585452434853

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INDEX

1. Usage: Commercial
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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