189,819 Letters? Seriously?

There's a lot of repeating word...syllables...

"lthreonylthreony"

that's epic long.

[quote name='Crazzy1' post='2952700' date='Jun 30 2010, 04:23 PM']There's a lot of repeating word...syllables...

"lthreonylthreony"[/quote]

Each word represents a "branch" on the protein. So, since you can have identical branches, you can have repeated words.

If I ever have a son,this will be his name.

[quote name='Ultralex' post='2952889' date='Jul 1 2010, 05:44 AM']If I ever have a son,this will be his name.[/quote]
Don't you back out when you do get one

Well you got your info sorta wrong.
That's the longest chemical name ever. Chemical names aren't technically one word.

Though it is fun to look at after taking chemistry and actually understanding some of what it is.
I'd kill myself if I saw that in a chemistry question.

[quote name='Ultralex' post='2952889' date='Jul 1 2010, 06:44 AM']If I ever have a son,this will be his name.[/quote]
what if you have a daughter? call her "titine" ?

The longest word in the english language is actually the chemical name for Titin

[quote name='Costello' post='2953502' date='Jul 1 2010, 07:35 AM'][quote name='Ultralex' post='2952889' date='Jul 1 2010, 06:44 AM']If I ever have a son,this will be his name.[/quote]
what if you have a daughter? call her "titine" ?
[/quote]
Tsk tsk...

thats the amazing complexity of our bodies for you.

[quote name='Costello' post='2953502' date='Jul 1 2010, 07:35 AM'][quote name='Ultralex' post='2952889' date='Jul 1 2010, 06:44 AM']If I ever have a son,this will be his name.[/quote]
what if you have a daughter? call her "titine" ?
[/quote]
Tina, duh



Also, components in a structural formula are separate words, not one long word. Carbon dioxide, dihydrogen monoxide, hydrogen hydroxide... Separate.

[quote name='Veho' post='2953784' date='Jul 1 2010, 11:18 AM']dihydrogen monoxide, hydrogen hydroxide[/quote]
I saw what you did there.

And Nadrian, I knew someone would point that out, and I knew it would be you.

[quote name='Veho' post='2953784' date='Jul 1 2010, 11:18 AM'][quote name='Costello' post='2953502' date='Jul 1 2010, 07:35 AM'][quote name='Ultralex' post='2952889' date='Jul 1 2010, 06:44 AM']If I ever have a son,this will be his name.[/quote]
what if you have a daughter? call her "titine" ?
[/quote]
Tina, duh



Also, components in a structural formula are separate words, not one long word. Carbon dioxide, dihydrogen monoxide, hydrogen hydroxide... Separate.
[/quote]
OK. So it isn't a word, but a load of words together. All the better then to say that you have Carbon dioxide-phobia, dihydrogen monoxide-phobia, hydrogen hydroxide-phobia. So you end up having 244 phobias of things that we all have in our bodies.


[quote name='zeromac' post='2953507' date='Jul 1 2010, 06:41 AM']The longest word in the english language is actually the chemical name for Titin[/quote]
No Shit sherlock.

[quote name='Veho' post='2953784' date='Jul 1 2010, 11:18 AM']dihydrogen monoxide, hydrogen hydroxide[/quote]
water and water

water-phobia? How can you live?

[quote name='JetKun' post='2953949' date='Jul 1 2010, 02:53 PM']water-phobia? How can you live?[/quote]
It's not easy.

[quote name='JetKun' post='2953938' date='Jul 1 2010, 02:47 PM']OK. So it isn't a word, but a load of words together. All the better then to say that you have Carbon dioxide-phobia, dihydrogen monoxide-phobia, hydrogen hydroxide-phobia. So you end up having 244 phobias of things that we all have in our bodies.[/quote]
Like titin

You're going to an extreme here. A "load of words together" make a "phrase", and the meaning of the "phrase" isn't the same as the individual words. And the fear of a concept isn't a fear of all the individual terms used to describe that concept.

The chemicals I named were used for illustration. Carbon dioxide is one term consisting of two words. Since we're talking phobias here, a phobia of asphyxiating on carbon dioxide is not a fear of carbon, nor a fear of oxygen, it's a specific fear of a specific combination of the two. And so even though the description for titin is several (hundred) words long, the fear of titin is not a fear of those individual terms that describe its structure, it's a fear of the whole thing.

Can't say I'm particularly impressed because it's just repeated the sequence of amino acid side chains that make it up?

I think. It is a rather random phobia though...

Veho, if it's the buildup of CO2 that's the trouble then it's probably closer to suffocation.

I dare someone to read the whole thing.

[quote name='ProtoKun7' post='2954123' date='Jul 1 2010, 04:41 PM']Veho, if it's the buildup of CO2 that's the trouble then it's probably closer to suffocation. [/quote]
I thought the two were synonymous? I dunno