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S vs Chitin - What's the difference?

s | chitin |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun chitin is

chitin.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    chitin

    English

    (wikipedia chitin)

    Noun

  • (carbohydrate) A complex polysaccharide, a polymer of N-acetylglucosamine, found in the exoskeletons of arthropods and in the cell walls of fungi; thought to be responsible for some forms of asthma in humans.
  • * 1880 , Arthur Gamgee, ''A Text-book of the Physiological Chemistry of the Animal Body, Macmillan, p. 299
    • Chitin usually occurs throughout Invertebrates in the form of an investment to the outermost cellular layer or ectoderm.
  • * 2004 , New Scientist , 11 Sep 2004, p.19
    • The robot’s energy source is the sugar in the polysaccharide called chitin that makes up a fly’s exoskeleton.

    Derived terms

    * chitinous

    References

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