acrylamide

Other forms: acrylamides

Definitions of acrylamide
  1. noun
    a white crystalline amide of propenoic acid can damage the nervous system and is carcinogenic in laboratory animals
    “they claimed that acrylamide is produced when certain carbohydrates are baked or fried at high temperatures”
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    type of:
    amide
    any organic compound containing the group -CONH2
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