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almost 7 years ago
The longest word in English has 189,819 letters and would take you three and a half hours to pronounce correctly. Seriously. It's the chemical name of Titin (or connectin), a giant protein "that functions as a molecular spring which is responsible for the passive elasticity of muscle
almost 7 years ago
Though chemical names are seen more as verbal formulas and are usually not seen as “words”
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