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Meaning of phosphagen | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Any of a class of energy storage compounds, chiefly found in muscular tissue in animals, allowing a high-energy phosphate pool to be maintained in a concentration range, which, if it all were ATP, would create problems due to the ATP consuming reactions in these tissues.

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

phospham phosphamide phosphamidon phosphammite phosphane phosphanthridine

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