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Definition: Pyrophosphate |
PyrophosphateNoun1. A salt or ester of pyrophosphoric acid. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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From the standpoint of high energy phosphate accounting, the hydrolysis of ATP to AMP and PPi will cost 2 high energy phosphates, as to reconstitute AMP from ATP will require 2 phosphorylation reactions.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pyrophosphate."
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The medium consists of Yeast Extract, Cysteine, and Ferric Pyrophosphate with, or without the addition of D or L Tyrosine, or D or L Phenylalanine. Credit: CDC. |
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| "Pyrophosphate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Pyrophosphate" is used about 8 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 87.5% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
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Expressions using "pyrophosphate": Calcium Pyrophosphate ♦ geranyl pyrophosphate ♦ Phosphoribosyl Pyrophosphate ♦ sodium pyrophosphate ♦ Technetium Tc 99m Pyrophosphate ♦ tetrasodium pyrophosphate ♦ Thiamine Pyrophosphate. Additional 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pyrophosphate | 12 |
sodium acid pyrophosphate | 7 |
pyrophosphate tetrasodium | 4 |
sodium pyrophosphate | 3 |
ferric pyrophosphate | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "pyrophosphate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 焦磷酸. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | pyrophosphat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | pyrofosfaat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pyrofosfaattisidos (pyrophosphate bond, pyrophosphate linkage), kaliumpyrofosfaatti (potassium pyrophosphate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | pyrophosphate. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Pyrophosphat (pyrophosphate bond, pyrophosphate linkage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | πυροφωσφορικό. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pirofoszfát. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | pirofosfato. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yrophosphatepay pirofosfato de sódio (sodium pyrophosphate). (various references) pirofosfato. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pyrophosphate": pyrophosphates. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "pyrophosphate" (pronounced 'Pyr"o*phos"phate'): Bisulphate, Fluophosphate, Metaphosphate, Persulphate, Phosphate, Pyrosulphate, Subsulphate, sulphate, Sulphophosphate, Superphosphate, Supersulphate. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-h-o-o-p-p-p-r-s-t-y" | |
-3 letters: apostrophe, photophase, saprophyte, sporophyte. | |
-4 letters: phosphate, phosphore, theosophy. | |
-5 letters: apospory, hoopster, oophytes, orthoepy, pappoose, phorates, phosphor, prophase, prophesy, prophets, trappose. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-h-o-o-p-p-p-r-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: pyrophosphates. | |
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