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Acrylamide

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Abstract

Acrylamide is also known as 2-propenamide, acrylic amide, acrylic acid amide, akrylamid, ethylene carboxamide, and propenoic acid amide. As a monomer, it is used in grouts and soil stabilizers. As a polymer, acrylamide is also used as a flocculant in drinking water and wastewater treatment plants, as an additive for enhanced oil recovery, as a fog dissipator, soil stabilizer, paper and paperboard strengthener, adhesive and binder component, and in metal coating, food packaging, photography, chromatography gel, electrophoresis gel, and dye applications. Its structure and properties are shown in Table 1.

Based on USEPA (1985a), except for Section I which is based on USEPA (1984)

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Ware, G.W. (1988). Acrylamide. In: Ware, G.W. (eds) Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, vol 107. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7083-3_1

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