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Did you know? The longest English word is technically "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" (45 letters) — a rare lung disease. But in formal chemistry publications the chemical name of titin (a muscle protein) is 189,819 letters long — it would take 3.5 hours to pronounce. No dictionary contains it.

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The longest English word is technically "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" (45 letters) — a rare lung disease. But in formal chemistry publications the chemical name of titin (a muscle protein) is 189,819 letters long — it would take 3.5 hours to pronounce. No dictionary contains it.

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