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NONOXYNOL

Specialty Definition: NONOXYNOL

DomainDefinition

Health

Nonionic surfactant mixtures varying in the number of repeating ethoxy (oxy-1,2-ethanediyl) groups. They are used as detergents, emulsifiers, wetting agents, defoaming agents, etc. Nonoxynol-9, the compound with 9 repeating ethoxy groups, is a spermatocide, formulated primarily as a component of vaginal foams and creams. (references)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: NONOXYNOL

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

nonoxynol 9

50

nonoxynol

15

nonoxynol 9 spermicide

9

9 allergy nonoxynol

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: NONOXYNOL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "l-n-n-n-o-o-o-x-y"

-4 letters: loony, nonyl, nylon.

-5 letters: loon, lynx, nolo, noon, only, onyx.

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

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

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Alternative Orthography: NONOXYNOL


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

4E 4F 4E 4F 58 59 4E 4F 4C

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)

01001110 01001111 01001110 01001111 01011000 01011001 01001110 01001111 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 004F 004E 004F 0058 0059 004E 004F 004C

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

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

484948495859484946

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INDEX

1. Expressions: Internet
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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