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Pictured is the protein Titin in reference to other thin filaments. It’s the largest protein and the longest word in the English language.
The longest word in the English language is 189,819 letters long and takes three and a half hours to say. It is the actual name of a protein called Titin for short. The protein is the largest one ever discovered which is why its name is so long.
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