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macrofoam

macrofoam noun: foam that has relatively large bubbles.

Noun

macrofoam (countable and uncountable, plural macrofoams)

  1. Foam that has relatively large bubbles.
    • The manufacturer-provided buffer was discarded and sterile PBS was used and then added to the macrofoam sponge component of the BiSKit. Once the PBS had adequately absorbed to the macrofoam sponge, the sampler was unscrewed from the module and was traversed about the surface area of interest (ca. 1...2015 August 15, “Cleanroom Maintenance Significantly Reduces Abundance but Not Diversity of Indoor Microbiomes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of macrofoam

pluralmacrofoams

Origin of macrofoam

From macro- + foam.

Questions about macrofoam

What does macrofoam mean?
Macrofoam means foam that has relatively large bubbles.
What part of speech is macrofoam?
Macrofoam is a noun.
What is the plural of macrofoam?
The plural of macrofoam is macrofoams.

Words near macrofoam in the dictionary

  1. macroflorae
  2. macrofloral
  3. macrofloras
  4. macrofluidic
  5. macrofluorescence
  6. macrofoam
  7. macrofoams
  8. macrofollicular
  9. macrofossil
  10. macrofossils
  11. macrofoulant

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