While people generally find it difficult to read English words like Czechoslovakia, there is also another English word which will take about three and a half hours to read that single word if you sit to pronounce it. Now you must be thinking, which is the word which will take so much time to read, let us also tell about it.
You will be surprised to know that the longest word in English has 1, 89,819 letters and it will take you three and a half hours to pronounce it correctly. This is a chemical name of titin, the largest known protein.
According to scientists, there are more than 2 million proteins in the human body, which are made up of amino acids. Titin is the largest known protein in the human body, which contains more than 26 thousand amino acids.
The chemical name of titin was first kept in the English dictionary, but it was later removed from the dictionary when the name caused trouble. It is now known only as Titin.
Titin protein was discovered in 1954 by Reiji Natori. Subsequently, in the In 1977, Koscak Maruyama and coworkers isolated an elastic protein from muscle fiber, which they called connectin. Two years later, Two years later, Kuan Wang and coworkers identified a doublet band on electrophoresis gel corresponding to a high molecular weight elastic protein, which they named titin.
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