Definition of "polyacrylamide" []

• A white polyamide, (-CH2CHCONH2-), related to acrylic acid. (noun)

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• "Dr. Shrestha is also involved in research related to nitrogen recycling, non-point source pollution such as nitrate leaching to groundwater and suspended sediment from surface water using polyacrylamide, integrated plant nutrient management, and manure and compost management."
• "His paper in the Journal of Molecular Biology describing how he made it is probably the most cited paper in biology, after one by a man called Laemmli, who discovered SDS-PAGE (sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis)."
• "It is very surprising that nobody had spotted this before; it could have been done any time after the invention of the slab SDS polyacrylamide gel in about"