The longest word in the world

The name “titin“ is borrowed from the Greek word “titan“ (a giant deity, something of a large size). The chemical name begins with Methionylalanylthreonylseryla ... and ends with ... olylprolylprolylleucine. It is interesting that you will not even see the full chemical name of titanium in dictionaries, since compilers of dictionaries consider the names of chemical compounds to be a verbal formula, not a word. But no matter how you call it: a word, a formula or a whole story, it is extremely long
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