Answer for this puzzle is one word. Have fun!
Highlighted parts are where I realised I have clued it wrong... Sorry for all this inconvenience!
Hint:
usefulness level 1
The way of deciphering has been hinted in this post
usefulness level 2
athin should have used another colour instead of yellow. That would make things easier, hopefully...
This puzzle is a part of Ooohh, it all makes sense now! :D
Answer
After solving the nonogram (from @athin)
The title,
along with the binary found by solving the nonogram, clues Gray codes.
Breaking the code:
We can construct the Gray code by starting with [0, 1], and each layer we can flip the entire list, append 0 to the front of each element in the original list, append 1 to the front of each element in the new list, and then concatenate the lists. So [0, 1] becomes [00, 01, 11, 10] for instance. For 5 bits, we get the list
(Ok, maybe I interpreted the word "flip" too literally).
Anyway, I also wrote down the letters A-Z down the side starting 00000 (which makes sense given our code text contains some 00000's). Decoding the Gray code line by line gives the answer VANADIUM.
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