ACRYLAMIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acrylamide mean? 

• ACRYLAMIDE (noun)
  The noun ACRYLAMIDE has 1 sense:

1. a white crystalline amide of propenoic acid can damage the nervous system and is carcinogenic in laboratory animals

  Familiarity information: ACRYLAMIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACRYLAMIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A white crystalline amide of propenoic acid can damage the nervous system and is carcinogenic in laboratory animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Context example:

they claimed that acrylamide is produced when certain carbohydrates are baked or fried at high temperatures

Hypernyms ("acrylamide" is a kind of...):

amide (any organic compound containing the group -CONH2)

 Context examples 

Agarose and acrylamide in a cylindrical tube or slab gel are commonly used media for electrophoresis of proteins and nucleic acids.

(Gel Electrophoresis, NCI Thesaurus)

Acrylamide is reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen.

(Acrylamide, NCI Thesaurus)

Similarly, GM potatoes do not bruise easily and, on deep frying, produce less acrylamide, a potentially cancer-causing chemical.

(GM tech expands with more crops to more countries, SciDev.Net)

Acrylamide is used in the production of polymers mainly in the water treatment industry, pulp and paper industry and textile treatment industry and is used as a laboratory reagent.

(Acrylamide, NCI Thesaurus)