Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A colorless liquid, O:CH.NH2, prepared by heating ammonium formate.
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- noun organic chemistry The
amide offormic acid HCO-NH2 or any N-substituted derivative; they are used in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals
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Examples
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An oxygen scavenger (ammonium bisulfide) or stabilizer (N,n-dimethyl formamide), to prevent corrosion of metal pipes
Bill Chameides: What's in This Fracking Water? Bill Chameides 2011
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An oxygen scavenger (ammonium bisulfide) or stabilizer (N,n-dimethyl formamide), to prevent corrosion of metal pipes
Bill Chameides: What's in This Fracking Water? Bill Chameides 2011
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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."
Kevin Grandia: Watch out for hydraulic fracturing it might make your hair orange 2010
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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.
Kevin Grandia: Waxman and Markey's Hydraulic Fracking Smackdown 2010
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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."
Kevin Grandia: Watch out for hydraulic fracturing it might make your hair orange 2010
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Demithyl formamide is part of the formula used in the cryopreservation process during which organs are frozen.
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The purchase of the industrial chemical demithyl formamide
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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.
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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.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Pramod K. Dash et al. 2010
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The brain sections from each hemisphere were incubated in 5 ml 55°C formamide for 24 hr.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Pramod K. Dash et al. 2010
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