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carboxyl

[ kahr-bok-sil ]

adjective

  1. containing the carboxyl group.


carboxyl

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  1. The radical COOH, characteristic of all carboxylic acids.
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of carboxyl1

First recorded in 1865–70; carb- + ox(ygen) + -yl
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We then sent these carbon atoms — from a very metabolically active part of the amino acid called the carboxyl group — through a machine called a mass spectrometer to read their isotope fingerprints.

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The researchers patterned the graphene with “functional groupsâ€â€”chemical studs such as carboxyl or amine groups.

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An unexpected enzymatic carboxyl group migration leads to an antibiotic precursor.

In a mouse model of depigmentation, DNA vaccination with a melanocyte antigen and the carboxyl terminus of HSP70i was sufficient to drive autoimmunity.

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Intimately connected with this is the fact that these fibres also exhibit partly basic and partly acid characters, due to the presence of carboxyl and amido groups.

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