quaternary

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Inspired by this, the researchers created a highly reactive and selective chemical component referred to as a quaternary centre that, because of structural similarities, also drives the essential first step in the kapakahines synthesis.

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  1. adjective Consisting of four; in fours.
  2. adjective Of or belonging to the geologic time, system of rocks, or sedimentary deposits of the second period of the Cenozoic Era, from the end of the Tertiary Period through the present, characterized by the appearance and development of humans and including the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs. See Table at geologic time.
  3. adjective Chemistry Relating to an atom bonded to four carbon atoms: a quarternary nitrogen atom.

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  • There should be good evidence from within the old fashioned, tried and tested late quaternary palaeoarchives for this impact. —  RealClimate
  • Vertebrate hemoglobin, contained in erythrocytes, is a globular protein with a quaternary structure composed of 4 globin chains (2 alpha and 2 beta) and a prosthetic group named heme bound to each one. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Here, we solved the quaternary structure of human p53 in solution by a combination of small-angle x-ray scattering, which defined its shape, and NMR, which identified the core domain interfaces and showed that the folded domains had the same structure in the intact protein as in fragments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • (PEFC) employing a hydroxide ion-conductive polymer, quaternary ammonium polysulphone, as alkaline electrolyte and nonprecious metals, chromium-decorated nickel and silver, as the catalyst for the negative and positive electrodes, respectively. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • DNA interaction with quaternary diammonium dications, R (CH3) 2N+ (CH2) nN+ (CH3) 2R, having various intercharge distances, lengths, and branching, and the chemical nature of the hydrophobic substituents were investigated by fluorescent microscopy and circular dichroism —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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  1. Latin quaternārius, from quaternī, by fours, from quater, four times; see kwetwer- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin quaternarius, consisting of four each, containing four, from quaterni, four each, by fours: see quatern.
 

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