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  • noun organic chemistry The carboxyl group.

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Examples

  • The weak laser contained far less energy than standard electrical explosive initiators, the researchers said, yet still ignited a type of functionalized fullerenes called carboxy fullerenes.

    D Mag - News 2010

  • The weak laser contained far less energy than standard electrical explosive initiators, the researchers said, yet still ignited a type of functionalized fullerenes called carboxy fullerenes.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010

  • The weak laser contained far less energy than standard electrical explosive initiators, the researchers said, yet still ignited a type of functionalized fullerenes called carboxy fullerenes.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

  • Carbon Monoxide combines preferentially with hemoglobin to form carboxy-hemoglobin COHb thereby restricting the amount of hemoglobin which is available to bind to Oxygen.

    Go chemistry! 2008

  • In man, the carboxy derivative CMMG accounted for 9-14% of an intravenous dose of acyclovir, while essentially none of the 8-hydroxy metabolite appeared in the urine (136,137).

    Nobel Lecture The Purine Path To Chemotherapy 1988

  • · Commercial development requirements, such as dry and wet milling, and derivatives (for instance, methylated and carboxy derivatives of amaranth starch).

    6 Research Needs 1984

  • Due to the highly variable nature of their repetitive sequences, spidroin evolutionary relationships have principally been determined from their non-repetitive carboxy

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2010

  • "We hold that 11-carboxy-THC is not a schedule 1 controlled substance," the court said, "and, therefore, a person cannot be prosecuted ... for operating a motor vehicle with any amount of 11-carboxy-THC in his or her system."

    Hit & Run 2010

  • While the 2006 ruling deemed the marijuana metabolite 11-carboxy-THC to be a "derivative," this week's decision

    Hit & Run 2010

  • ChIP-Seq datasets using an antibody specific for an elongating Pol_II isoform (phosphorylated at Ser5 of the carboxy-terminal domain of Rbp1)

    PLoS Biology: New Articles Francesca De Santa et al. 2010

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