Saturday, February 27, 2010

Ikaite, a mineral named after the Ika Fjord in southwest Greenland

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The mineral ikaite is named after the Ika Fjord , now spelled Ikka Fjord , in southwest Greenland. This fjord is about 12 km long and for...
Friday, February 26, 2010

Hazenite, a mineral named after earth scientist Robert M. Hazen

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Hazenite is a hydrous alkali magnesium phosphate with the formula KNaMg 2 (PO 4 ) 2 ·14H 2 O [1,2]. This mineral was discovered and descri...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

Don't (mis)match Deutsch and Dutch!

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Drop the two letters e and s from the German word D e ut s ch and you get Dutch . This is what a Danish student of German did—according t...
Monday, February 22, 2010

Short notations for α-amino acids and peptides based on one-letter code (1LC)

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A three-letter code ( 3LC ) is typically applied to encode molecular structures that contain sequences of the proteinogenic amino acids . T...
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Sunday, February 21, 2010

Short notations for α-amino acids and peptides based on three-letter code (3LC)

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α-Amino acids are the building blocks of biomolecules such as peptides and proteins as well as supramolecular structures that are of inter...

Amino acids in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish

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The twenty standard amino acids have one-word names in the languages English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The only exce...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Click chemistry, a term now recognized in many branches of chemistry

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The term click chemistry refers to a synthetic strategy that focuses on “ easy-to-make” chemical compounds and materials from modular “bloc...