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phosphagens

phosphagens is the plural of phosphagen.

Meaning of phosphagen

Noun

phosphagen (plural phosphagens)

  1. Any of a class of energy storage compounds, chiefly found in muscular tissue in animals, allowing a high-energy phosphate pool to be maintained in a concentration range, which, if it all were ATP, would create problems due to the ATP consuming reactions in these tissues.

Questions about phosphagens

What is phosphagens the plural of?
Phosphagens is the plural of phosphagen.

Words near phosphagens in the dictionary

  1. phosphaalkenes
  2. phosphaalkyne
  3. phosphaalkynes
  4. phosphacyclic
  5. phosphagen
  6. phosphagens
  7. phospham
  8. phosphamide
  9. phosphamides
  10. phosphamidon
  11. phosphammite

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