byproduct
Noun
Meaning
a product made during the manufacture of something else
a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence
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A byproduct of the drug addiction and use problem in the city, the dirty needles present a public health hazard.
And I don't know if that was a byproduct of how we made it, but I also wrote a lot of the songs pretty quickly, one right after another.
A process using an enzyme from Bacillus thermoproteolyticus to catalyze the condensation of the chemically altered amino acids will produce high yields without the β-form byproduct.
As a byproduct of lightning strikes in earth's nitrogen-oxygen rich atmosphere, nitric acid is produced when nitrogen dioxide reacts with water vapor.
Aromatherapists also use hydrosols, another byproduct of distillation, but they generally use essential oils in practice.
Cellular role Hydrogen peroxide is a harmful byproduct of many normal metabolic processes; to prevent damage to cells and tissues, it must be quickly converted into other, less dangerous substances.