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Six example sentences with amide, each labelled with its topic.
Nylon owes its strength to the amide linkage that ties one long chain of molecules to the next.
Science
Climbing ropes are woven from an amide fiber that resists abrasion far better than the cotton lines gyms once used.
Fitness
Engineers coat circuit boards with an amide resin because the film survives heat that would blister ordinary plastics.
Technology
Lidocaine belongs to the amide group of local anaesthetics, and dentists prefer it because reactions are rare.
Medicine
Acrylamide, a small amide, forms in the crust of well-browned fries, which is why chefs now blanch potatoes first.
Cooking
In 1935 a DuPont chemist pulled a thread from an amide melt, and the fibre that hardened became nylon.
History
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