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polylactic acids

polylactic acids is the plural of polylactic acid.

Meaning of polylactic acid

Noun

polylactic acid (plural polylactic acids)

  1. A biodegradable thermoplastic made by polymerization of lactic acid residues.
    • After Azolla was grown for ten days in media containing different polylactic acid concentrations, the greatest significant growth increase of 41.4% was obtained on a concentration of 1 μg/l followed by a 34.5% dry weight increase at 0.1 μg/l (Table 1).1997, Tomas Ayala-Silva, Safaa Al-Hamdani, Physiological Responses of Azolla caroliniana Willd. to Polylactic Acid, in Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science, Volume 68, Alabama Academy of...
    Synonyms:
    polylactide

Questions about polylactic acids

What is polylactic acids the plural of?
Polylactic acids is the plural of polylactic acid.

Words near polylactic acids in the dictionary

  1. polykites
  2. polylactate
  3. polylactates
  4. polylactic
  5. polylactic acid
  6. polylactic acids
  7. polylactide
  8. polylactides
  9. polylactone
  10. polylactones
  11. polylactosamine

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