alanine

Etymology
From  in reference to aldehyde, with the infix -an- for ease of pronunciation, when the German chemist Adolph Strecker first synthesized alanine in 1850 by mixing acetaldehyde (then just known as aldehyde) with ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, and hydrochloric acid.

Noun

 * 1)  A nonessential amino acid 2-aminopropanoic acid found in most animal proteins
 * 2)  A specific residue, molecule, or isomer of this amino acid
 * 1)  A specific residue, molecule, or isomer of this amino acid

Translations

 * Catalan: alanina
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: alanin
 * Danish: alanin
 * Esperanto: alanino
 * Finnish: alaniini
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 * Galician: alanina
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 * Ido: alanino
 * Irish: alainín
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: アラニン
 * Kazakh: аланин
 * Korean: 알라닌
 * Kyrgyz: аланин
 * Maori: aranina
 * Persian: آلانین
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 * Portuguese: alanina
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 * Vietnamese: alanin