Note the ellipses. All told, the full chemical name for the human protein titin is 189,819 letters, and takes about three-and-a-half hours to pronounce. The problem with including chemical names is that there’s essentially no limit to how long they can be. For example, naming a single strand of DNA, with its millions and millions of repeating base pairs, could eventually tab out at well over 1 billion letters.
METHIONYLTHREONYLTHREONYGLUTAMINYLARGINYL … ISOLEUCINE Is a very long word
by Phoenix the primagen March 9, 2021