#chitin
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #chitin from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-27 07:13 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-27 07:13 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-27 07:13 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~32926 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 17:00
Languages: English (28) · Japanese (5) · German (4) · Russian (1) · Spanish (1) · Galician (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.8
Top of the latest posts
@futurebird @saltywizard For me the real shock about #chitin — which is basically nature's own biodegradable plastic — was learning that it isn't limited to insects, or even to the animal kingdom. The cell walls of fungi are largely compose
Chinesische Forschende haben einen #BiopolymerSchaum entwickelt, der #Mikroplastik aus #Gewässern mit einer Erfolgsrate von bis zu 99,9 % entfernt. https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Biologisch-abbaubarer-Schaum-soll-Mikroplastik-aus-den-Meer
💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🦗🧬 Researchers analyzed insect #DNA trapped in dental tartar from #humans living up to 33,000 years ago, plus genes tied to digesting #chitin, the stuff in insect shells. They found northern Eurasians rarely ate #insects and
What “chitin” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediachitin/ˈkaɪtɪn/
- nounA complex polysaccharide, a polymer of N-acetylglucosamine, found in the exoskeletons of arthropods and in the cell walls of fungi; thought to be responsible for some forms of asthma in humans.
Chitin (C8H13O5N)n ( KY-tin) is a long-chain polymer of N-acetylglucosamine, an amide derivative of glucose. Chitin is the second most abundant polysaccharide in nature (behind only cellulose); an estimated 1 billion tons of chitin are produced each year in the biosphere. It is a primary component of cell walls in fungi (especially filamentous and mushroom-forming fungi), the exoskeletons of arthropods such as crustaceans and insects, the radulae, cephalopod beaks and gladii of molluscs and in s
“Chitin” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#chitin across platforms
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