polyamides
polyamides is the plural of polyamide.
Meaning of polyamide
Noun
polyamide (plural polyamides)
- Any of a range of polymers containing amide (or peptide) repeat units; examples include proteins and nylon.
- For eons, the debris has contained the same things — flecks from plant and animal carcasses, feces, mucus, dust, microbes, viruses — and transported the ocean’s carbon to be stored on the seafloor. Increasingly, however, marine snowfall is being infiltrated by microplastics: fibers and fragments of...2022 April 3, Sabrina Imbler, “In the Ocean, It’s Snowing Microplastics”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2022
Questions about polyamides
- What is polyamides the plural of?
- Polyamides is the plural of polyamide.
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