Protomolecule

Quick meaning: Protomolecule is a noun meaning A collection of unstably bound atoms that has the potential to form a molecule if the structure can shed sufficient energy.

Meaning

A collection of unstably bound atoms that has the potential to form a molecule if the structure can shed sufficient energy.

More Meanings

1. A relatively simple molecule from which a more complex molecule is derived.

Example Sentences

Another example is the technique developed at NRC for synthesizing the insulin protomolecule.

The local structure seen in Figure 3 may in fact be the entire structure of a fundamental melanin protomolecule.

It is most probable that all matter is simply the allotropic expression of one element and that the protomolecule is the union of the positively and negatively electrified etheric corpuscle.

This is a consequence of the fact that the protomolecule, just formed in a high vibrational level, has to release quickly (roughly in a time comparable with its vibrational period) an energy excess of about four and a half electronvolt.

Word Forms

• protomolecules

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include supramolecule, submolecule, protomer, prepolymer, protium, antimolecule.

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