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TAKE THE QUIZxanthine oxidase
noun
: a crystallizable flavoprotein enzyme containing iron and molybdenum that promotes the oxidation especially of hypoxanthine and xanthine to uric acid and of many aldehydes to acids
called also Schardinger enzyme
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