Get to know Polyacrylamide better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Polyacrylamide in a sentence
Polyacrylamide meaning
Any of a range of cross-linked polymers of acrylamide; used to form soft gels for making contact lenses etc.
Using Polyacrylamide
- The main meaning on this page is: Any of a range of cross-linked polymers of acrylamide; used to form soft gels for making contact lenses etc.
- In the example corpus, polyacrylamide often appears in combinations such as: polyacrylamide gel, of polyacrylamide, on polyacrylamide.
Context around Polyacrylamide
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 6 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Polyacrylamide
- In this selection, "polyacrylamide" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, slab, used, vertical, gel, gels and dna stand out and add context to how "polyacrylamide" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a 5 polyacrylamide gel and and a slab polyacrylamide gel or. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "polyacrylamide" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with polyacrylamide
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Samples were run on a 5% polyacrylamide gel and visualized using silver staining. (13 words)
These could be fractionated by electrophoresis on a polyacrylamide gel and visualised using autoradiography. (14 words)
See the " Chain termination method " page for an example of a polyacrylamide DNA sequencing gel. (15 words)
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. (33 words)
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. (32 words)
Hi-Crush officials said the pond contained mostly water, silt, clay and sand, though it could contain trace amounts of a polyacrylamide, which is used to remove silt from the water. (31 words)
Example sentences (13)
Hi-Crush officials said the pond contained mostly water, silt, clay and sand, though it could contain trace amounts of a polyacrylamide, which is used to remove silt from the water.
Acrylamide, in contrast to polyacrylamide, is a neurotoxin and must be handled using appropriate safety precautions to avoid poisoning.
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.
Another use of polyacrylamide is as a chemical intermediate in the production of N-methylol acrylamide and N-butoxyacrylamide.
Polyacrylamide gel electrophoeresis with urea can also be used in RNA separation but it is most commonly used for fragmented RNA or microRNAs.
Polyacrylamide gels are usually used for proteins, and have very high resolving power for small fragments of DNA (5-500 bp).
Samples were run on a 5% polyacrylamide gel and visualized using silver staining.
See the " Chain termination method " page for an example of a polyacrylamide DNA sequencing gel.
The fragments are then size-separated by electrophoresis in a slab polyacrylamide gel, or more commonly now, in a narrow glass tube (capillary) filled with a viscous polymer.
These could be fractionated by electrophoresis on a polyacrylamide gel and visualised using autoradiography.
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.
Types of gel The types of gel most typically used are agarose and polyacrylamide gels.
Up to 3% can be used for separating very tiny fragments but a vertical polyacrylamide gel is more appropriate in this case.
Common combinations with polyacrylamide
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- polyacrylamide gel 8×
- of polyacrylamide 3×
- on polyacrylamide 3×
- polyacrylamide gels 3×
- polyacrylamide is 2×