polyacrylamide

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polyacrylamide (plural polyacrylamides)

(organic chemistry) Any of a range of cross-linked polymers of acrylamide; used to form soft gels for making contact lenses etc.

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Acrylamide, in contrast to polyacrylamide, is a neurotoxin and must be handled using appropriate safety precautions to avoid poisoning. Source: Internet

Agarose gel has lower resolving power than polyacrylamide gel for DNA but has a greater range of separation, and is therefore used for DNA fragments of usually 50-20,000 bp in size. Source: Internet

For example, ICP-MS may be combined with size exclusion chromatography and quantitative preparative native continuous polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis ( QPNC-PAGE ) for identifying and quantifying native metal cofactor containing proteins in biofluids. Source: Internet

See the " Chain termination method " page for an example of a polyacrylamide DNA sequencing gel. Source: Internet

Traditional DNA sequencing techniques such as Maxam-Gilbert or Sanger methods used polyacrylamide gels to separate DNA fragments differing by a single base-pair in length so the sequence could be read. Source: Internet

Another use of polyacrylamide is as a chemical intermediate in the production of N-methylol acrylamide and N-butoxyacrylamide. Source: Internet

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