zeptomole

See also: zepto-mole

English

WOTD – 10 January 2013

Etymology

From zepto- +‎ mole.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈzɛptoʊˌmoʊl/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈzɛptəʊˌməʊl/
• Hyphenation: zep‧to‧mole

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Noun

zeptomole (plural zeptomoles)

1. (physical chemistry) 10^-21 mole, or about 600 molecules. SI symbol: zmol.
   • 2002, Jeffrey Van Ness, “Present and Future of Tags and Labels in High Throughput Genomic Analysis”, in D. J. Galas, S. J. McCormack, editors, Genomic Technologies: Present and Future: Functional Genomics Series‎^[1], Caister Academic Press, →ISBN, pages 144–145:

     It has been repeatedly shown that enzyme-derived ODN-based assays can detect as little as 50 zeptomoles of target DNA corresponding to about 25,000 molecules.

   • 2005, Beatriz Sanchez-Vega, “Introduction to Capillary Electrophoresis of DNA: Biomedical Applications”, in John M. Walker, Ralph Rapley, editors, Medical Biomethods Handbook‎^[2], Humana Press, →ISBN, page 109:

     The sensitivity of detection is in the range of zeptomoles […]

   • 2008, Kewal K. Jain, The Handbook of Nanomedicine‎^[3], Humana Press, →ISBN, page 88:

     This scatter-based method enables detection of zeptomole quantities of nucleic acid targets […]

Related terms

• zeptomolar

Translations

unit

• Finnish: zeptomooli
• French: zeptomole (fr)
• Japanese: ゼプトモル
• Russian: зептомо́ль (zeptomólʹ)