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Chain

  [cheyn]
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–noun
Sir Ernst Boris  [urnst, ernst] , 1906–79, English biochemist, born in Germany: Nobel prize for medicine 1945.
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Slang Dictionary
chain(-smoke)

  1. in.
    to smoke cigarette after cigarette. (As if each cigarette were a link in a chain.) : I never wanted to chain-smoke, but I got addicted.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

chain 
c.1300, from O.Fr. chaeine, from L. catena "chain," from PIE base *kat- "to twist, twine." The verb is attested from 1377. chain of stores is Amer.Eng., 1846. Chain letter first recorded 1906.
"In 1896, Miss Audrey Griffin, of Hurstville, New South Wales initiated a 'chain letter' with the object of obtaining 1,000,000 used postage stamps." ["Daily Chronicle," July 27, 1906]
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: chain
Pronunciation: 'chAn
Function: noun
often attributive 1 : a series of things (as bacteria) linked, connected, or associatedtogether
2 : a number of atoms or chemical groups united like links in a chain
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Chain (chān), Ernst Boris. 1906-1979.

German-born British biochemist. He shared a 1945 Nobel Prize for isolating and purifying penicillin, discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming.

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Chain, Sir Ernst Boris 1906-1979.  
German-born British bacteriologist who, with Howard Florey, developed and purified penicillin in 1939. For this work, they shared a 1945 Nobel Prize with Alexander Fleming, who first discovered the antibiotic in 1928.
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