deoxy

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Editorial note

Shame they blocked deoxy, that was one of the oldest websites on the internet.

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(chemistry) Describing any compound formally derived from another by replacement of a hydroxy group by a hydrogen atom.

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adjective

(chemistry) Describing any compound formally derived from another by replacement of a hydroxy group by a hydrogen atom.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for deoxy.

adjective

(chemistry) Describing any compound formally derived from another by replacement of a hydroxy group by a hydrogen atom.

Example sentences

Shame they blocked deoxy, that was one of the oldest websites on the internet.

You're familiar with the (now sadly degraded) deoxy.org?

I loved the deoxy site, it was one of my favorites:-) Next to the site and writings of the esoteric Brother Blue, who was he?

I wonder what happens if you combine 2-deoxy-D-ribose with Minoxidil.

I comment here because there was a wonderful IRC community there that I lost contact with when Deoxy went down, and I'd love to find it again.

> For PET imaging, the main radiopharmaceutical is fluoro-deoxy glucose (FDG) incorporating F-18 – with a half-life of just under two hours – as a tracer.

One of the earliest websites on the net was deoxy.org emerging from a mailing list that started in the 1980s, there was a big community around it that changed my life for the better.

This really reminds me of the web as I remember it from the mid-to-late 90's; I feel like I'm just a click away from the old deoxy.org, if anyone remembers that.

> Findings from the study show that the deoxy ribose sugar is as effective at regrowing hair as Minoxidil - an existing drug used to treat hair loss Minoxidil is barely effective, especially for something that became widely available.

Even if life on Mars miraculously stumbled upon the same four (five) nucleobases, the same twenty (-two) amino acids, glucose, glycerol esters, and (deoxy)ribose, it would still seem pretty unlikely that it chooses the same three-base sequences corresponding to the same amino acids in RNA translation.

Quote examples

Just in case there are people who didn't have this thought but would want to know: a Google Shopping search for "2-deoxy-D-ribose" finds results (though do be careful to ignore any non-explicitly-2-deoxy- supplements).

Proper noun examples

Like me, I know the first thing that popped into your mind when you saw this thread is Deoxy.

Deoxy.org, it's been offline for years now.

Deoxy.org - The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension It was a personal wiki of sorts about psychedelics, new age mysticism, anarchy, subversive philosophy, environmentalism, and obscure information.