Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A colorless liquid, O:CH.NH2, prepared by heating ammonium formate.

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  • noun organic chemistry The amide of formic acid HCO-NH2 or any N-substituted derivative; they are used in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals

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Examples

  • An oxygen scavenger (ammonium bisulfide) or stabilizer (N,n-dimethyl formamide), to prevent corrosion of metal pipes

    Bill Chameides: What's in This Fracking Water? Bill Chameides 2011

  • An oxygen scavenger (ammonium bisulfide) or stabilizer (N,n-dimethyl formamide), to prevent corrosion of metal pipes

    Bill Chameides: What's in This Fracking Water? Bill Chameides 2011

  • The 1 percent that isn't water and sand is chemicals like formamide, a "reproductive toxicant" that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention says targets organs like the "eyes, skin, respiratory system, central nervous system, [and] reproductive system."

    Kevin Grandia: Watch out for hydraulic fracturing it might make your hair orange 2010

  • We do know that there are some very nasty chemicals in fracking fluid, like formamide, a "reproductive toxicant" that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention says targets organs like the "eyes, skin, respiratory system, central nervous system, [and] reproductive system," and isopropanol which is a main ingredient in household glass cleaners.

    Kevin Grandia: Waxman and Markey's Hydraulic Fracking Smackdown 2010

  • The 1 percent that isn't water and sand is chemicals like formamide, a "reproductive toxicant" that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention says targets organs like the "eyes, skin, respiratory system, central nervous system, [and] reproductive system."

    Kevin Grandia: Watch out for hydraulic fracturing it might make your hair orange 2010

  • Demithyl formamide is part of the formula used in the cryopreservation process during which organs are frozen.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • The purchase of the industrial chemical demithyl formamide

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • As to the chemicals found on the farm, Washington testified that eight of them could have been used to manufacture MDA: isosafrole, formamide, formic acid, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, hydrogen peroxide, toluidine, acetone, and methanol.

    The Courts, DEA and Drugs by RBrennan 1994

  • At the end of the incubation, tissues were removed and the formamide solution was centrifuged at 20,000×g for 20 min in an Eppendorf centrifuge.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Pramod K. Dash et al. 2010

  • The brain sections from each hemisphere were incubated in 5 ml 55°C formamide for 24 hr.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Pramod K. Dash et al. 2010

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