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Organic Chemicals > Amides > Acrylamides > Acrylamide
... > Organic Chemicals > Carboxylic Acids > Acids, Acyclic > Acrylates > Acrylamides > Acrylamide

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Acrylamide  

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Note

  • ACRYLAMIDES is also available

Scope note

  • A colorless, odorless, highly water soluble vinyl monomer formed from the hydration of acrylonitrile. It is primarily used in research laboratories for electrophoresis, chromatography, and electron microscopy and in the sewage and wastewater treatment industries.

History note

  • 99; use ACRYLAMIDE (NM) 1982-98

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