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What does vicinal mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to a neighborhood; neighboring.
  2. (chemistry) Describing identical atoms or groups attached to nearby (especially adjacent) atoms in a molecule.
  3. (mineralogy) Describing subordinate planes on a crystal, which are very near to the fundamental planes in angles, and sometimes take their place.
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To the C-tenninus of the recombinant proteins, two vicinal cysteins were added for subsequent single-molecule manipulation.
Dithiols were better reversal agents than monothiols, further suggesting that these inhibitors bind to the proposed vicinal sulfhydryls present on this enzyme.
The epoxide hydrolases are a family of enzymes that hydrate simple epoxide to vicinal diols and arene oxides to transdihydrodiols.
In other words, such conditions present the pre-eminent advantages of vicinal location around an enclosed sea.
Surfers are like farmers or hunters in their rapt absorption in nature's vicinal habits and vagaries.
The prime geographic consideration is location, natural and vicinal.

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