polyamide

Definitions

Any of a range of polymers containing amide (or peptide) repeat units; examples include proteins and nylon.

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Examples

“For eons, the debris has contained the same things — flecks from plant⟳ and animal carcasses, feces, mucus, dust, microbes, viruses — and transported the ocean’s carbon to be stored on the seafloor. Increasingly, however, marine snowfall is being infiltrated by microplastics: fibers and fragments of polyamide, polyethylene and polyethylene terephthalate. And this fauxfall appears to be altering our planet’s ancient cooling process⟳.”

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