Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A colorless liquid, O:CH.NH2, prepared by heating ammonium formate.
Wiktionary
- n. organic chemistry The amide of formic acid HCO-NH2 or any N-substituted derivative; they are used in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals
Examples
“An oxygen scavenger (ammonium bisulfide) or stabilizer (N,n-dimethyl formamide), to prevent corrosion of metal pipes”
The Huffington Post: Bill Chameides: What's in This Fracking Water?
“The 1 percent that isn't water and sand is chemicals like formamide, a "reproductive toxicant" that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention says targets organs like the "eyes, skin, respiratory system, central nervous system, [and] reproductive system.”
“We do know that there are some very nasty chemicals in fracking fluid, like formamide, a "reproductive toxicant" that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention says targets organs like the "eyes, skin, respiratory system, central nervous system, [and] reproductive system," and isopropanol which is a main ingredient in household glass cleaners.”
The Huffington Post: Kevin Grandia: Waxman and Markey's Hydraulic Fracking Smackdown
“Demithyl formamide is part of the formula used in the cryopreservation process during which organs are frozen.”
“The purchase of the industrial chemical demithyl formamide”
“As to the chemicals found on the farm, Washington testified that eight of them could have been used to manufacture MDA: isosafrole, formamide, formic acid, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, hydrogen peroxide, toluidine, acetone, and methanol.”
“At the end of the incubation, tissues were removed and the formamide solution was centrifuged at 20,000×g for 20 min in an Eppendorf centrifuge.”
“The brain sections from each hemisphere were incubated in 5 ml 55°C formamide for 24 hr.”
“H (1999) Excitation-contraction coupling in rat ventricular myocytes after formamide-induced detubulation.”
“Metaphase chromosomes were denatured in 50% formamide for 5 min at 92°C, and used immediately.”
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