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Meaning of "porphyrin" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PORPHYRIN

From Greek porphura purple, referring to its colour.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PORPHYRIN

porphyrin  [ˈpɔːfɪrɪn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PORPHYRIN

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determiner
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Porphyrin is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PORPHYRIN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

porphyrin

Porphyrin

Porphyrins are a group of heterocyclic macrocycle organic compounds, composed of four modified pyrrole subunits interconnected at their α carbon atoms via methine bridges (=CH−). The parent porphyrin is porphine, and substituted porphines are called porphyrins. The porphyrin macrocycle has 26 (delocalized) pi electrons in total, therefore by Hückel's rule it is aromatic, possessing 4n+2 π electrons (n=4, for the shortest cyclic path). Thus porphyrin macrocycles are highly conjugated systems and consequently they typically have very intense absorption bands in the visible region and may be deeply colored; the name "porphyrin" comes from a Greek word for purple. Many porphyrins are naturally occurring; one of the best-known porphyrins is heme, the pigment in red blood cells, a cofactor of the protein hemoglobin. (The specific porphyrin in heme B (see Figure) is called protoporphyrin IX and has 4 methyl, two vinyl, and two propionic acid substituents at the indicated positions.)...

Definition of porphyrin in the English dictionary

The definition of porphyrin in the dictionary is any of a group of pigments occurring widely in animal and plant tissues and having a heterocyclic structure formed from four pyrrole rings linked by four methylene groups.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PORPHYRIN


antipyrine
ˌæntɪˈpaɪrɪn
butyrin
ˈbjuːtɪrɪn
Catherine
ˈkæθrɪn
doctrine
ˈdɒktrɪn
Drin
drɪn
Erin
ˈɪərɪn
foreign
ˈfɒrɪn
grin
ɡrɪn
hematoporphyrin
ˌhiːmətəʊˈpɔːfɪrɪn
Katherine
ˈkæθərɪn
keirin
ˈkeɪrɪn
mandarin
ˈmændərɪn
Marin
ˈmɑːrɪn
mirin
ˈmɪrɪn
nonaspirin
ˌnɒnˈæspɪrɪn
papyrine
pəˈpaɪrɪn
protoporphyrin
ˌprəʊtəʊˈpɔːfɪrɪn
ribavirin
ˈriːbəˌvaɪrɪn
sovereign
ˈsɒvrɪn
urine
ˈjʊərɪn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PORPHYRIN

porosities
porosity
porous
porously
porousness
porpentine
porpess
porphyria
porphyric
porphyries
porphyrite
porphyritic
porphyrogenite
porphyroid
porphyropsin
porphyrous
porphyry
porpoise
porporate
porraceous

WORDS THAT END LIKE PORPHYRIN

aldrin
aneurin
aspirin
brin
chagrin
epichlorohydrin
florin
Gagarin
glycerin
heparin
Kirin
margarin
Montenegrin
navarin
Perrin
sarin
Schwerin
serin
trin
warfarin

Synonyms and antonyms of porphyrin in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «porphyrin» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PORPHYRIN

Find out the translation of porphyrin to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of porphyrin from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «porphyrin» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

卟啉
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

porfirina
570 millions of speakers

English

porphyrin
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

porphyrin
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

البورفيرين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

порфирина
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

porfirina
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

porphyrin
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

porphyrine
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Porphyrin
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Porphyrin
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ポルフィリン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

포르피린
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Porfirin
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

porphyrin
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

போர்பைரின்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गुलाफिरिन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

porfirin
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

porfirina
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

porfiryny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

порфирина
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

porfirinei
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

πορφυρίνης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

porfirien
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

porfyrin
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

porfyrin
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of porphyrin

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PORPHYRIN»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PORPHYRIN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about porphyrin

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PORPHYRIN»

Discover the use of porphyrin in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to porphyrin and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Handbook of Porphyrin Science: with Applications to ...
This handbook will prove to be a modern authoritative treatise on the subject as it is a collection of up-to-date works by world-renowned experts in the field.
Kevin M. Smith, Karl M. Kadish, Roger Guilard, 2012
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Porphyrin Materials for Organic Light Emitting Diodes
It is hoped that this work outlines a possible route to phosphorescent OLED technologies.
Brian Tuffy, 2011
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The Porphyrin Handbook: Phthalocyanines: Synthesis
The Porphyrin Handbook
Karl Kadish, Roger Guilard, Kevin M. Smith, 2006
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The Porphyrin Handbook: Medical aspects of porphyrins
Porphyrin ester marker kit CMK IE (Logan) is hydrolyzed to free porphyrin acids overnight in HCl (6 mol/1) by adding 200 ul HCL (6 mol 1) to one bottle. Directly before use the concentration of this standard solution is diluted sixfold (final HCl ...
Karl M. Kadish, Kevin M. Smith, Roger Guilard, 2003
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Fabrication of Functional Surfaces: ...
A new technique to fabricate nano to micro scaled patterns of polymeric materials using a stamping method developed in our lab enables direct fabrication of architectures without employing advanced lithographic tooling or "wet" chemistry ...
Giorgio Bazzan, 2008
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The Porphyrin Handbook: Phthalocyanines : spectroscopic and ...
TT* transitions of symmetric, main group metal porphyrin and phthalocyanines. The incorporation of transition metals into the core, such as Fe and Ru, increases the difficulty in assigning the optical spectra since bands arise from metal-to- ...
Karl M. Kadish, Kevin M. Smith, Roger Guilard, 2003
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Self-assembled Novel Multi-porphyrin Micro-crystals as a ...
Following the findings that 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene binds to porphyrins at room temperature and could be photoctalytically degraded using porphyrin solutions and visible light, the purpose of this work was to determine the nature of the ...
Walid M. Hikal, 2008
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The Porphyrin Handbook: The iron and cobalt pigments : ...
protoheme are similar (uM) and that enzyme turnover as measured in vitro is quite low (on the order of 10 min-1) may be consistent with an enzyme that has little ability to differentiate between porphyrin substrate and product. This may be  ...
Karl M. Kadish, Kevin M. Smith, Roger Guilard, 2003
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The Porphyrin Handbook: Biochemistry and binding: activation ...
The latter, which can be prepared by oxidative addition of superoxide to synthetic ferrous porphyrin complexes, deserves particular attention because it is a model of one of the putative active complexes in the catalytic cycle of P450. Although ...
Karl M. Kadish, Kevin M. Smith, Roger Guilard, 2000
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Handbook of Porphyrin Science: With Applications to ...
This Handbook will prove to be a modern authoritative treatise on the subject as it is a collection of up-to-date works by world-renowned experts in the field.
Karl M. Kadish, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PORPHYRIN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term porphyrin is used in the context of the following news items.
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Buckyballs in Space: Massive Molecules Stealing Starlight
Some of these ideas "have been borderline crazy ... killer bacteria in space, some wild porphyrin molecule." Scientists have probed the nature ... «Sci-Tech Today, Jul 15»
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Global market for catalysts: Environment surrounding the catalyst is …
The team, led by Led by Yale University's Dr. James Mayer, studied a subset of iron-based electrocatalysts, known as iron-porphyrin complexes ... «Companiesandmarkets.com, Jul 15»
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Enhanced efficacy of photodynamic therapy by inhibiting ABCG2 in …
In human colon cancers, it is not fully examined the role of ABCG2 in porphyrin-based photodynamic therapy. Methods: SW480 and HT29 cells ... «7thSpace Interactive, Jul 15»
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Chasing the Solar Revolution
Wöll and his team chose to create the MOFs for this study based on the porphyrin structure; a rigid, square-planar molecule made up of four ... «Daily Nexus, Jul 15»
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Fuel cell designers need to look beyond the catalyst to the support …
The team examined five iron-based electrocatalysts, known as iron-porphyrin complexes, to determine how they catalyzed the oxygen ... «Phys.Org, Jun 15»
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Properties and Applications of Graphene Oxide and Functionalized …
Also, it has been shown that it is possible to attach fullerene-functionalized secondary amines and porphyrin-functionalized primary amines to ... «AZoNano.com, Jun 15»
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Common vitamin found in foods causes acne, says study
Porphyrin is known to drive the inflammatory skin response linked to acne. Vitamin B12 plays key roles in the normal functioning of the brain ... «AOL UK, Jun 15»
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Fifty shades of green
At the very center of the complex porphyrin ring in each chlorophyll molecule you find one atom of magnesium. But a single atom of iron stands ... «Livingston Daily, Jun 15»
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Catalyst that converts carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide in water
The authors decided to incorporate phenol groups into the porphyrin structure. However, the phenol-modified catalyst was still insoluble in ... «Phys.Org, Jun 15»
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Malaria drug could cash in on green chemistry
It goes on to generate reactive singlet oxygen using light and a porphyrin photocatalyst in a traditional batch reactor, using dichloromethane as ... «Royal Society of Chemistry, May 15»

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