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| Domain | Definition |
Health | A cyclododecadepsipeptide ionophore antibiotic produced by Streptomyces fulvissimus and related to the enniatins. It is composed of 3 moles each of L-valine, D-alpha-hydroxyisovaleric acid, D-valine, and L-lactic acid linked alternately to form a 36-membered ring. (From Merck Index, 11th ed) Valinomycin is a potassium selective ionophore and is commonly used as a tool in biochemical studies. (references) |
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| 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. |
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valinomycin | 4 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-l-m-n-n-o-v-y" | |
-2 letters: inviolacy. | |
-3 letters: amnionic, cinnamyl, viomycin. | |
-4 letters: acyloin, alimony, anionic, avionic, cannily, cannoli, limacon, minivan, nominal, vicinal, viminal, vinylic. | |
-5 letters: alnico, aminic, amnion, amylic, anilin, anomic, anonym, camion, canyon, clivia, cyanin, cymlin, incony, limina, limnic, mainly, manioc, mayvin, minion, minyan, niacin, nomina, oilcan, oilman, vainly, vimina, violin, vomica. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 41 4C 49 4E 4F 4D 59 43 49 4E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .- .-.. .. -. --- -- -.--. -.-. .. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01000001 01001100 01001001 01001110 01001111 01001101 01011001 01000011 01001001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V A L I N O M Y C I N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0041 004C 0049 004E 004F 004D 0059 0043 0049 004E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5635464348494759374348 |
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