zeptomole
See also: zepto-mole
English
WOTD – 10 January 2013
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈzɛptoʊˌmoʊl/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈzɛptəʊˌməʊl/
- Hyphenation: zep‧to‧mole
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Noun
zeptomole (plural zeptomoles)
- (chemistry, physics) One 10-21th part of a mole, or about 600 molecules of a substance, SI symbol: zmol.
- 2002, Jeffrey Van Ness, "Present and Future of Tags and Labels in High Throughput Genomic Analysis", in Genomic Technologies: Present and Future: Functional Genomics Series (eds. D. J. Galas & S. J. McCormack), Caister Academic Press (2002), →ISBN, pages 144-145:
- It has been repeatedly shown that enzyme-derived ODN-based assays can detect as little as 50 zeptomoles of target DNA corresponding to about 25,000 molecules.
- 2005, Beatriz Sanchez-Vega, "Introduction to Capillary Electrophoresis of DNA: Biomedical Applications", in Medical Biomethods Handbook (eds. John M. Walker & Ralph Rapley), Humana Press (2005), →ISBN, page 109:
- The sensitivity of detection is in the range of zeptomoles […]
- 2008, Kewal K. Jain, The Handbook of Nanomedicine, Humana Press (2008), →ISBN, page 88:
- This scatter-based method enables detection of zeptomole quantities of nucleic acid targets […]
- 2002, Jeffrey Van Ness, "Present and Future of Tags and Labels in High Throughput Genomic Analysis", in Genomic Technologies: Present and Future: Functional Genomics Series (eds. D. J. Galas & S. J. McCormack), Caister Academic Press (2002), →ISBN, pages 144-145:
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