I learned a new word today: moiety. In chemistry, a moiety is a specific segment of a molecule. For the more conventional meaning, check out answers.com.
This is the advantage of reading papers on or near your computer (hooked up to the internet). The one I'm reading right now referred to the pyrophosphate moiety of PLPP (pyridoxal 5'-diphosphate). Knowing what moiety means really helps to understand this part of the paper.
I love google.
And yes, I'm procrastinating. Back to work I go.
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